brainstorm

brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code from Nathan-Schwartz/dotfiles. It costs 17 tokens per session (1,231 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A guided brainstorming skill for turning early intuitions into clearly defined problems and evaluating possible approaches through conversation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Defining problems, developing ideas, and discussing possible solutions.
Why use it?
It provides structure when an idea is still vague or when several approaches need to be compared.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Defining problems, developing ideas, and discussing possible solutions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nathan-schwartz/dotfiles/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 Nathan-Schwartz/dotfiles --skill brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Nathan-Schwartz/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nathan-schwartz/dotfiles/brainstorm/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nathan-schwartz/dotfiles/brainstorm)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nathan-schwartz/dotfiles/brainstorm"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nathan-schwartz/dotfiles/brainstorm.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,231 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00017 $0.01231
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00492
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00246
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00123

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 85dbace2cd63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

brainstorm scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 2mo 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

!`cat ~/.claude/references/epistemic-reference.md`
claude/.claude/skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md · 95 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2mo ago First seen · 95 lines · 17 tokens per session scan B 85dbace2cd63

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brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository Nathan-Schwartz/dotfiles (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 1,231 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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