mx-brainstorm

mx-brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from maxence2997/mx-harness. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,253 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided design-planning skill that turns a rough feature idea or substantial fix into an approved design specification and an ADR, a short record of an important technical decision. It asks one question at a time and presents distinct approaches with their trade-offs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a feature or non-trivial fix to clarify goals, compare approaches, record decisions, and agree on a design before implementation.
Why use it?
It helps resolve ambiguity and expose design decisions before code is written. Implementation is blocked until the user approves the specification.

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/maxence2997/mx-harness/mx-brainstorm
Any agent
npx skills add maxence2997/mx-harness --skill mx-brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maxence2997/mx-harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,253 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 $0.00074 $0.01253
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00626
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00251
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00125

Measured 3d ago against content hash 68f5cc0f9b0f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mx-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 3d 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.

mx-brainstorm/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

mx-brainstorm

Trigger

/mx-brainstorm <topic>
/mx-brainstorm

Operating principles

Don't assume. Don't hide confusion. Surface tradeoffs. These apply at every step below — not just Step 1.

  • State assumptions explicitly. If uncertain, ask rather than guess.
  • Present multiple interpretations. When the user's request is ambiguous, surface the readings and let the user pick. Do not silently choose one and proceed.
  • Push back when warranted. If a simpler approach exists, say so. If a proposed option is over-engineered for the stated problem, name it.
  • Stop when confused. Name what is unclear and ask for clarification. Do not paper over confusion with plausible-sounding text.

Applied to this skill specifically:

  • In Step 2, options must be genuinely distinct — do not pad to three options by inventing a contrived variant. Two real options beats three fake ones.
  • In Step 2, prefer the minimum approach that solves the stated problem. Larger options must justify their extra scope explicitly in Best when.

Side requests

At any step, the user may ask for something mid-conversation (e.g. "open an issue", "add a comment", "check a file"). When this happens:

  • Execute exactly what was requested — nothing more
  • Do not make additional code changes, file edits, or actions that were not asked for
  • After completing the side request, return to the brainstorm conversation

Example: "go open an issue describing this" → open the issue, stop. Do not also edit source files.


Step 1 — Understand the idea

Read existing code relevant to the topic (if any) using Glob and Read. Then ask the user one question at a time to clarify:

  • What problem does this solve?
  • Who is affected and how?
  • Are there constraints (performance, compatibility, deadlines)?
  • What does success look like?

Rules:

  • One question per message — never bundle multiple questions
  • Prefer multiple-choice over open-ended where possible
  • There is no question limit — keep asking until the picture is genuinely clear
  • If invoked from mx-flow, the topic is already provided — begin with the first clarifying question immediately, do not ask if the user wants to start

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 3d ago First seen · 181 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 68f5cc0f9b0f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mx-brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository maxence2997/mx-harness (5 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,253 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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