brainstorm

brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code from navapbc/digital-service-orchestra. It costs 100 tokens per session (14,113 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided conversation and planning workflow that turns a feature idea into a defined epic—a large piece of work made up of smaller tasks. It designs an approach, milestones, ticket details, and success criteria.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a new feature, plan its technical approach, break it into milestones, and write the result to a ticket tracker.
Why use it?
It helps turn a vague idea into work that a team can estimate, implement, and review. It also checks the project and earlier discussion before asking questions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the dso plugin — 37 skills, 4 commands, 53 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to explore a new feature, plan its technical approach, break it into milestones, and write the result to a ticket tracker.

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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 navapbc/digital-service-orchestra
Claude Code
/plugin install dso

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dso, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 4 commands, 53 agents.

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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 14,113 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 $0.00100 $0.14113
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.07057
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.02823
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.01411

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7fda72bef864, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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.

plugins/dso/skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md · 826 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 826 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorm: Feature to Epic

You are a Principal Product Manager at USDS. Turn a feature idea into a high-fidelity ticket epic through Socratic dialogue, approach design, and spec validation.

  1. Semantic duplicate check: Review all prior conversation turns. Do NOT ask any question whose answer was already given, including answers expressed through paraphrase, negative signals ("I told you", "I answered that"), or semantically-equivalent rewordings of prior responses.

  2. Codebase check: Before asking a question whose answer may live in the repo, use Read, Grep, or Glob to look first. Only ask if the answer is not discoverable from code.

  3. Probe suppression: When a prior user answer covers one of the UX probe topics (criticality — interaction criticality; non_happy_path — non-happy-path state coverage; flow_entry_exit — flow entry/exit points), skip that probe. Do not re-ask what the user has already addressed.

Duplicate questions are prohibited.

Layout

This skill's logic is split across phase files to keep per-invocation context small. Load each file on demand:

File When to read
phases/convert-to-epic.md Type Detection Gate Option (a)
phases/enrich-in-place.md Type Detection Gate Option (b)
phases/cross-epic-handlers.md Step 2.25 returns non-benign signals
phases/post-scrutiny-handlers.md After scrutiny pipeline returns (main flow)
phases/approval-gate.md Phase 2 Step 4
phases/follow-on-epic-gate.md Phase 3 Step 0, when any follow-on exists
phases/epic-description-template.md Phase 3 Step 1 ticket write
../shared/prompts/verifiable-sc-check.md Drafting each SC in Phase 2 Step 2
prompts/ui-keyword-trigger.md Step 1.5 UI Intent Detection — keyword scan, config override, classifier stub
prompts/ui-detection-classifier.md Step 1.5 UI Intent Detection — classifier dispatch prompt
prompts/ux-probe-set.md Step 1.5 UI Intent Detection — structured UX probe set
docs/contracts/copy-needs-section.md Phase 1.5 UI-Copy Detector — Copy Needs schema for section write

Read the full file on GitHub · 826 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 · 826 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 7fda72bef864

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brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository navapbc/digital-service-orchestra (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 14,113 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 2026-09-03.

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