What is wicked-garden-jam?

A workflow for turning brainstorming into different perspectives and, when needed, a recorded decision. Quick sessions are temporary, while full brainstorming and council sessions are saved as tasks and outcomes.

Use it for a quick gut check, exploring a complex problem with multiple perspectives, evaluating defined options, or recording the result of an earlier decision.

It gives open-ended ideas, structured evaluation, and decision records different workflows instead of treating every discussion the same way.

wicked-garden-jam — Skill for Claude Code by mikeparcewski

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add mikeparcewski/wicked-garden

Claude Code

/plugin install wicked-garden

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install wicked-garden, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 148 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent, 13 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 140 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,638 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 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00140	$0.01638
Opus 5	$0.00070	$0.00819
Sonnet 5	$0.00028	$0.00328
Haiku 4.5	$0.00014	$0.00164

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6f084d69eb1d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wicked-garden-jam 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.

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/jam/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming Skill

Generate diverse perspectives through structured focus group sessions. This is the single entry point for the jam domain — route the user's request to one of the sub-actions below.

Routing

Sub-action	When	How it runs
`quick`	Gut-check, rapid exploration (~60s)	Inline — apply `refs/quick.md` directly
`brainstorm`	Important decisions, complex problems	Fork → `wicked-garden-jam-brainstorm-facilitator`
`council`	Defined options needing a rigid verdict	Fork → `wicked-garden-jam-council`
`revisit`	Record the outcome of a past decision	Inline — follow `refs/revisit.md`

Progression: quick (60s gut-check, ephemeral) → brainstorm (full session with evidence + decision storage) → council (structured verdict with external LLMs, final step). Key distinction: quick = ideation, brainstorm = free-form exploration, council = rigid evaluation of defined options.

Quick-Start

# Fast gut-check (ephemeral, ~60s)
jam quick "Should we use feature flags or config files here?"

# Full session with evidence and decision storage
jam brainstorm "Architecture approach for the new event bus"

# High-stakes council with external LLM challenge
jam council "Go/no-go on the v9 storage migration" --options "go, no-go"

# Record how a past decision worked out
jam revisit "event bus architecture"

Sub-action: quick

Args: <idea or question>

Quick 60-second exploration with 4 personas and 1 round. Run it inline — no dispatch:

Read("${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/jam/refs/quick.md") — the single-pass rubric: 4 personas, 1 forced round, synthesis format (Key Insights / Action Items / Open Questions), hard constraints (no storage, no multi-AI, ≤200 words).
Apply the rubric directly to the topic. Do NOT run additional rounds. Do NOT store.

Sub-action: brainstorm

Args: <topic> [--personas list] [--rounds n] [--converge fast]

Full brainstorm with evidence-backed perspectives. The facilitator gathers evidence from the ecosystem (past decisions, code context, brainstorm outcomes) before assembling personas, so they argue from data — not just opinions. After synthesis, a structured decision record is automatically stored via the wicked-garden-mem skill for organizational memory.

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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.

9d ago First seen · 150 lines · 140 tokens per session scan A 6f084d69eb1d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wicked-garden-jam is a skill published in the GitHub repository mikeparcewski/wicked-garden (9 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 140 tokens to every session and 1,638 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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