deep-brainstorm

deep-brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code from mhylle/claude-skills-collection. It costs 105 tokens per session (6,399 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A multi-session brainstorming method that saves an interconnected mind map to disk so exploration can continue later. It uses structured idea methods such as TRIZ, lateral thinking and assumption mapping.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for broad, complicated problems that need repeated exploration, comparison of assumptions and many possible directions. The saved directory lets you resume the work later.
Why use it?
It provides a persistent way to explore complex topics over several sessions instead of losing earlier ideas or forcing everything into one discussion.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the devflow plugin — 38 skills, 13 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it for broad, complicated problems that need repeated exploration, comparison of assumptions and many possible directions. The saved directory lets you resume the work later.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mhylle/claude-skills-collection/deep-brainstorm
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 mhylle/claude-skills-collection --skill deep-brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mhylle/claude-skills-collection

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install devflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 13 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,399 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 170
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00105 $0.06399
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.03200
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.01280
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00640

Measured 11d ago against content hash 462cefad8e42, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deep-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 11d 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.

skills/deep-brainstorm/SKILL.md · 646 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 646 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deep Brainstorm

Overview

This skill provides multi-session, resumable deep brainstorming that persists state to a mindmap-like directory structure on disk. Unlike brainstorm (single session, one output file) or team-brainstorm (single session, agent teams, one output file), deep-brainstorm spreads exploration across multiple sessions, building a rich interconnected knowledge structure over time.

Comparison:

Aspect brainstorm team-brainstorm deep-brainstorm
Sessions 1 1 Multiple (resumable)
Output Single .md file Single .md file Directory tree
Methodologies Socratic, Six Hats, SCAMPER, Premortem Adversarial debate All of the above + Morphological, TRIZ, Lateral Thinking, Lotus Blossom, Assumption Mapping, Reverse Brainstorming, HMW
Token cost ~8-12K ~25-40K ~8-15K per session
Best for Quick exploration Critical decisions Complex, multi-faceted topics
State None None _mindmap.yaml on disk

Critical Rules (READ FIRST)

These rules override any instinct to "be helpful by completing things quickly." This skill is intentionally slow and interactive.

Rule 1: NEVER Solve During SEED

The SEED phase maps the LANDSCAPE of areas to explore. It does NOT:

  • Pick technologies or frameworks
  • Recommend architectures
  • Make decisions
  • Produce any "answer" to the user's problem

SEED output is a set of QUESTIONS organized into areas, not answers.

Rule 2: NO Research During SEED

Do NOT spawn web-search-researcher or any research subagents during the SEED phase. Research happens in EXPLORE sessions, scoped to one area at a time. Researching everything up front kills the exploratory process by anchoring on early findings.

Rule 3: Minimum 3 Rounds of Socratic Questions

Before moving to area identification, you MUST complete at least 3 rounds of Socratic questioning with the user (2-4 questions per round). After each round, WAIT for the user to respond before asking more. Do NOT batch all questions into one message.

Read the full file on GitHub · 646 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 11d ago First seen · 646 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 462cefad8e42

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deep-brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository mhylle/claude-skills-collection (18 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 6,399 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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