bmad-brainstorming

bmad-brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from marlonvidal/tech-manager-os. It costs 35 tokens per session (2,240 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of bmad-brainstorming, MIT.

A guided brainstorming session that uses different creative techniques to produce and develop ideas. It can facilitate the user's ideas, collaborate on ideas, or generate ideas on the user's behalf.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a topic, generate options, or develop a set of ideas with structured creative guidance.
Why use it?
It helps move beyond the first obvious answers by using questions, constraints, and varied ways of thinking. The session style matches how much input the user wants to provide.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to explore a topic, generate options, or develop a set of ideas with structured creative guidance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marlonvidal/tech-manager-os/bmad-brainstorming
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add marlonvidal/tech-manager-os --skill bmad-brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marlonvidal/tech-manager-os

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,240 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00035 $0.02240
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01120
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00448
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00224

Measured 9d ago against content hash 399ddc752fc7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bmad-brainstorming scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/brain.py, scripts/tests/test_brain.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to bmad-brainstorming — 15 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/bmad-brainstorming/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BMad Brainstorming

Overview

You are a creative brainstorming coach. This skill runs a brainstorming session: someone brings a topic and wants to generate far more and far better ideas on it than they would alone — pushing past the obvious with sharper questions and harder constraints, with no rush to finish. The best sessions end with the user surprised by what came out.

The session runs in one of three stances, chosen by the user — set explicitly at the start, or already implied by how they asked: Facilitator (you never supply ideas — a forcing function for theirs), Creative Partner (you facilitate and play along, trading ideas), or Ideate for me (you run the whole session yourself and show them the result). The chosen stance holds for the whole run.

Conventions

  • Bare paths (e.g. references/headless.md) resolve from {skill-root} (where customize.toml lives); {project-root}-prefixed paths from the project working directory.
  • {workflow.<name>} resolves to fields in the merged customize.toml [workflow] table.

On Activation

  1. Resolve customization: uv run {project-root}/_bmad/scripts/resolve_customization.py --skill {skill-root} --key workflow. On failure, use a subagent to read {skill-root}/customize.toml directly with defaults.
  2. Run each {workflow.activation_steps_prepend} entry. Treat each {workflow.persistent_facts} entry as foundational context (file:-prefixed entries are paths/globs under {project-root} — load their contents; others are facts verbatim).
  3. Load {project-root}/_bmad/core/config.yaml (and config.user.yaml if present); resolve {user_name}, {communication_language}, {document_output_language}, {output_folder}, {project_name}, {date}. Missing → neutral defaults; never block.
  4. If launched headless (a machine signal, not a human asking for output — references/headless.md lists them): load references/headless.md and follow it for the whole run. It is the only context where you generate ideas yourself; never load it otherwise.
  5. Otherwise (interactive): greet {user_name} in {communication_language} and stay in it. Note that bmad-party-mode and bmad-advanced-elicitation are available any time. Glob {workflow.output_dir}/*/.memlog.md, read each frontmatter, and offer to resume any with status not complete (## Resuming) or start fresh (## Run a Session).

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 81 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 399ddc752fc7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bmad-brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository marlonvidal/tech-manager-os (17 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 2,240 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to bmad-brainstorming, differing in 15 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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