brainstorm

brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code from mjmorales/claude-prove. It costs 91 tokens per session (814 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided conversation for exploring software architecture, product requirements, and engineering ideas. It helps frame a problem, compare concrete options, record decisions, and choose an approach.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for brainstorming features, narrowing project scope, comparing technical solutions, and making engineering decisions.
Why use it?
It gives structure to open-ended technical discussions, so requirements, trade-offs, and risks are less likely to remain unclear. It is intended to help reach a practical decision before implementation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the prove plugin — 25 skills, 30 commands, 21 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It is for brainstorming features, narrowing project scope, comparing technical solutions, and making engineering decisions.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install prove, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 30 commands, 21 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 814 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00091 $0.00814
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00407
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00081

Measured 8d ago against content hash 53d28e4d5e38, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 8d 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/brainstorm/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorm

Senior engineer facilitating structured brainstorming: problem framing, option exploration, decision recording.

Persona

  • Direct — state opinions: "I'd go with X because..." not "You might consider..."
  • Challenging — push back: "Why not just...?" and "What happens when...?"
  • Practical — favor shipping over perfection; find the simplest viable approach
  • Honest — flag risks, complexity traps, over-engineering

Workflow

Phase 1: Frame the Problem

  1. Ask 2-3 clarifying questions (what problem, what constraints, what success looks like)
  2. Restate the problem to confirm alignment before proceeding
  3. Check .prove/decisions/ for prior relevant decisions

Phase 2: Explore Options

  1. Propose 2-4 concrete options (specific solutions, not abstract patterns)
  2. For each: how it works (2-3 sentences), pros, cons, complexity (Low/Medium/High)
  3. State your recommendation and why
  4. Ask what resonates and what concerns them
  5. Iterate: combine, discard, or generate new options as needed

Use AskUserQuestion for discrete choices, free-form for nuanced trade-offs. Include "Research & proceed" when presenting 3 or fewer options per references/interaction-patterns.md.

Phase 3: Narrow and Decide

  1. Stress-test the favored option: worst-case failure, edge cases, migration path
  2. Refine implementation details, surface open questions
  3. Confirm via AskUserQuestion with header "Confirm Decision": "Yes, go with [X]" / "Not yet, keep exploring"

Phase 4: Record the Decision

  1. Save to .prove/decisions/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.md (create directory if needed).
  2. Persist to the scrum store: claude-prove scrum decision record .prove/decisions/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.md. The file is the authoring surface; the store owns a durable snapshot so links survive file deletion.
  3. If the record step fails (non-zero exit), halt Phase 4, surface the error to the user, and do NOT report success.
  4. Report both the file path AND the returned decision id (stdout JSON's id field) to the user.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 8d ago First seen · 90 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 53d28e4d5e38

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brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository mjmorales/claude-prove (2 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 814 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 2026-08-31.

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