scamper

scamper is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from neurofoo/agent-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (672 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A brainstorming method built around seven questions: replace, combine, adapt, change, reuse, remove, and reverse. It helps examine a product, service, process, or problem from different angles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore product ideas, improve services or processes, combine existing features, and find alternative uses or simpler approaches.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to generate ideas when starting from a blank page or feeling stuck. The prompts help uncover changes that may otherwise be missed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the creative-skills plugin — 3 skills, 8 commands shipped together

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/neurofoo/agent-skills/scamper
Any agent
npx skills add neurofoo/agent-skills --skill scamper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install creative-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 8 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for scamper

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/neurofoo/agent-skills/scamper.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/neurofoo/agent-skills/scamper)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/neurofoo/agent-skills/scamper"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/neurofoo/agent-skills/scamper.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 672 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 $0.00044 $0.00672
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00336
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00134
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00067

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3f778ab80906, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scamper 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 5d 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.

scamper/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SCAMPER Creative Exploration

Apply all seven SCAMPER prompts to systematically explore creative possibilities for a product, service, process, or problem.

Instructions

Work through each of the seven prompts, generating multiple ideas for each. Quantity matters—don't self-edit too early. Wild ideas often lead to practical innovations.

Output Format

Subject: [What we're SCAMPERing] Goal: [What we're trying to achieve]


S: SUBSTITUTE

What can be replaced with something else?

Component Substitute With New Possibility
[element] [replacement] [what it enables]

C: COMBINE

What can be merged, blended, or bundled together?

Combine This With This Result
[element A] [element B] [new thing]

A: ADAPT

What can be copied, borrowed, or modified from elsewhere?

Source Idea to Adapt How to Apply
[where it's from] [the concept] [application here]

M: MODIFY / MAGNIFY / MINIMIZE

What can be changed, enlarged, or reduced?

Element Change Effect
[element] [modification] [result]

P: PUT TO OTHER USES

What else could this be used for?

Current Use New Use New Market/Context
[how it's used now] [different use] [who would want it]

E: ELIMINATE

What can be removed, omitted, or simplified?

Element to Remove Why We Think We Need It What If Gone?
[element] [assumed reason] [possibility]

R: REVERSE / REARRANGE

What can be flipped, reordered, or turned inside out?

Current State Reversed/Rearranged Possibility
[how it is now] [flipped version] [what opens up]

Idea Harvest

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 files 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. 5d ago First seen · 105 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 3f778ab80906

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scamper is a skill published in the GitHub repository neurofoo/agent-skills (111 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 672 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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