brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from myths-labs/muse. It costs 45 tokens per session (820 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for software changes that questions the underlying problem before implementation. It produces a design document for later development work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before adding features, building components, or changing behavior to clarify the real need, narrow the scope, and compare possible approaches.
Why use it?
It helps prevent building unnecessary features or accepting an unclear problem statement.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for gstack. Also seen: built for gstack.

Good fit Use it before adding features, building components, or changing behavior to clarify the real need, narrow the scope, and compare possible approaches.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/myths-labs/muse/brainstorming
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 myths-labs/muse --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/myths-labs/muse

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 820 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 $0.00045 $0.00820
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00410
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00164
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00082

Measured 9d ago against content hash 986538bfc7cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 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/toolkit/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming — Reframe Before You Build

Inspired by gstack's /office-hours. Upgraded to output standardized design docs.

Overview

Don't just ask "what do you want to build?" Ask "what pain are you solving?" This skill reframes the problem before a line of code is written, then outputs a design doc that feeds into /sprint downstream skills.

The Process

Phase 1: Reframe the Problem

Before exploring solutions, challenge the framing:

  1. Listen for pain, not features. User says "add a dark mode toggle." Ask: "What's the actual problem? Is it eye strain? Brand consistency? User requests?"
  2. Push back on scope. User describes 10 features. Ask: "If you could only ship one this week, which one?"
  3. Challenge 3 premises. Identify the user's hidden assumptions and question them explicitly.
    • "You're assuming users want X. What if they actually want Y?"
    • "You're assuming this needs to be real-time. Does it?"
    • "You're assuming mobile-first. What if desktop is the real use case?"

Rules:

  • One question per message
  • Multiple choice when possible
  • Don't rush past reframing — this is the highest-leverage phase

Phase 2: Explore Approaches

Once the real problem is clear:

  1. Generate 3 approaches with different tradeoffs:
    • Narrowest wedge — ship in hours, validate the thesis
    • Balanced — ship in days, covers core use cases
    • Full vision — ship in weeks, comprehensive solution
  2. Recommend one with clear reasoning
  3. Estimate effort for each (hours, not story points)

Lead with your recommendation. Explain why.

Phase 3: Present the Design

Once approach is chosen:

  • Break into sections of 200-300 words
  • After each section, ask: "Does this look right so far?"
  • Cover: architecture, components, data flow, error handling, testing
  • Apply ETHOS.md: Boil the Lake (do the complete thing), YAGNI (don't add what's not needed)

Phase 4: Output Design Doc

Write a standardized design doc to docs/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>-design.md:

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 9d ago First seen · 102 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 986538bfc7cb

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brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository myths-labs/muse (32 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 820 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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