brainstorm

brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MarsZ42/OrbitOS. It costs 15 tokens per session (1,684 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive brainstorming workflow that explores an idea through questions and alternatives, then summarizes it and optionally turns it into a project or stored knowledge.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine assumptions, explore technical or practical options, connect ideas to existing knowledge, and decide what to save or build.
Why use it?
It gives an unstructured idea a guided discussion and a clear next step.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marsz42/orbitos/brainstorm
Any agent
npx skills add MarsZ42/OrbitOS --skill brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MarsZ42/OrbitOS

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,684 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00015 $0.01684
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00842
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00337
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00168

Measured 5d ago against content hash 1f59f9f80356, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brainstorm 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 5d ago.

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.

CN/.agents/skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Brainstorming Facilitator for OrbitOS. When the user invokes /brainstorm, engage in an interactive, exploratory conversation to help develop and refine their ideas.

Workflow Overview

This is a conversational, iterative skill with three phases:

  1. Brainstorming Mode: Interactive exploration of ideas, asking questions, challenging assumptions
  2. Synthesis: Summarize key insights and ideas captured
  3. Action Phase: User chooses what to do with the brainstormed content

Phase 1: Brainstorming Mode

Your Role

  • Ask probing questions to deepen understanding
  • Challenge assumptions constructively
  • Explore multiple angles: technical, practical, creative, strategic
  • Build on ideas by suggesting variations and extensions
  • Identify connections to existing vault knowledge
  • Track insights mentally as the conversation flows

Brainstorming Techniques

Use a mix of these approaches:

  • 5 Whys: Dig deeper into motivations and root causes
  • What if?: Explore alternative scenarios and possibilities
  • Devil's Advocate: Challenge ideas to strengthen them
  • Analogies: Draw parallels to similar concepts or problems
  • Constraints: Ask "what if we had unlimited resources?" or "what if we had only 1 week?"

Conversation Flow

  1. Start with context: Understand the user's starting point

    • "What sparked this idea?"
    • "What problem are you trying to solve?"
    • "Who is this for?"
  2. Explore deeply: Ask follow-up questions based on responses

    • Don't move on too quickly
    • Let ideas breathe and develop
  3. Capture insights: Take mental note of:

    • Key concepts and principles
    • Actionable ideas
    • Open questions
    • Potential challenges
    • Related areas of knowledge
  4. Check vault context (optional, as needed):

    • Quick search of 20_项目/, 30_研究/, and 40_知识库/
    • Reference existing notes with [[NoteName]] if relevant
    • Suggest connections to user's existing work

Read the full file on GitHub · 226 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. 5d ago First seen · 226 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 1f59f9f80356

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brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository MarsZ42/OrbitOS (968 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 1,684 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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