brainstorming

A questioning and communication process for unclear or complex software requests. It requires understanding the goal, users, scope, and consequences before implementation begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Clarifying new features, architecture changes, refactors, and debugging work; identifying blocking decisions; generating relevant questions; and reporting status, errors, and next steps.
Why use it?
It prevents building the wrong feature because important decisions were assumed. The process turns vague requests into specific choices with clear trade-offs and keeps progress visible.

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/misonl/ling/brainstorming
Any agent
npx skills add MisonL/Ling --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MisonL/Ling

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,589 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 $0.00053 $0.01589
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00794
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00318
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00159

Measured 2d ago against content hash 803507b0d7db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2d 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.

.agents/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

头脑风暴与沟通协议

MANDATORY(强制要求): 适用于复杂/模糊的请求、新功能开发或系统更新。


苏格拉底之门 —— 强制执行

触发时机

模式 行动
在没有细节的情况下要求“构建/创建/制作 [某物]” 提出 3 个问题
涉及复杂功能或架构设计 在交付方案前先进行澄清
针对现有系统的更新/变更请求 确认影响范围
需求描述过于模糊 询问目的、用户群体及约束条件

强制要求:实施前的 3 个问题

  1. STOP(停止) —— 不得立即开始编写代码。
  2. ASK(提问) —— 至少提出 3 个关键问题:
    • 目的:您要解决什么问题?
    • 用户:谁将使用这个功能?
    • 范围:哪些是 Must-have(必选),哪些是 Nice-to-have(可选)?
  3. WAIT(等待) —— 在收到明确回复后再继续后续步骤。

动态提问生成

** 严禁使用静态模板。** 请查阅 dynamic-questioning.md 了解核心原则。

核心原则

原则 含义
提问揭示后果 每个问题都应关联到一个架构决策
背景先于内容 首先理解是全新开发、功能增强、重构还是调试背景
最小可行问题 每个问题都必须能够排除掉某些特定的实现路径
生成数据而非假设 不要猜测 —— 带着 trade-offs(权衡)方案去询问

提问生成流程

1. 解析请求 -> 提取领域、功能点、规模指标
2. 识别决策点 -> 区分阻塞性决策与可延后决策
3. 生成问题 -> 优先级:P0 (阻塞) > P1 (高杠杆) > P2 (可选)
4. 格式化权衡方案 -> 包含:内容、原因、选项、默认值

提问格式(强制要求)

### [优先级] **[决策点]**

**问题:** [清晰简洁的问题描述]

**为什么要问:**

- [由此涉及的架构后果]
- [影响范围:成本/复杂度/工期/规模]

**备选方案:**
| 选项 | 优点 (+) | 缺点 (-) | 适用场景 |
|--------|------|------|----------|
| A | ... | ... | ... |

**若未指定:** [默认执行方案 + 理由]

关于特定领域的详细问题库与算法,请参阅:dynamic-questioning.md


进度汇报原则

原则: 透明度建立信任。状态必须是可见且可操作的。

状态看板格式

Agent(智能体) 状态 当前任务 进度
[代理名称] [OK] [RUN] ⏳[FAIL] [WARN] [任务描述] [% 或 数量]

状态图标含义

图标 含义 使用场景
[OK] 已完成 任务已成功结束
[RUN] 运行中 正在执行相应指令
等待中 已阻塞,正在等待依赖项
[FAIL] 错误 任务失败,需要人工干预
[WARN] 警告 存在潜在问题,但不影响阻塞

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 165 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 803507b0d7db

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository MisonL/Ling (9 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,589 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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