brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NickCrew/Claude-Cortex. It costs 36 tokens per session (571 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Rapid ideation skill adapted from obra/superpowers to kick off cortex sessions. Use when defining scope, aligning on goals, or exploring solution space before coding.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/nickcrew/claude-cortex/brainstorming
Any agent
npx skills add NickCrew/Claude-Cortex --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NickCrew/Claude-Cortex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 571 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00036 $0.00571
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00285
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00057

Measured today against content hash 832dba68236a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 today.

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/collaboration/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 72 lines

What it actually says

/collaboration:brainstorming

Ported from obra/superpowers (MIT). Optimized for cortex so brainstorming outputs flow directly into Supersaiyan visuals and the Task TUI.

When to run

  • Before touching code: align on problem, success signals, blockers.
  • After big context shifts: new stakeholder, major dependency change, fresh repo checkout.
  • When you feel stuck: broaden solution space before diving back in.

Inputs you need

  • Current goal or ticket reference.
  • Repo hints: relevant modes/ (e.g., modes/Super_Saiyan.md) and scenarios/ if they exist.
  • Constraints (deadline, platforms, regulatory, etc.).

Steps

  1. Set the stage
    • Load modes/Super_Saiyan.md (CTRL+P → "Super Saiyan Mode") for visual/tone context.
    • Skim any scenarios/ideation/*.md tied to the feature.
  2. Map the landscape
    • List known goals, success metrics, blockers, unknowns.
    • Capture existing assets (agents, rules, workflows) that might help.
  3. Generate options
    • Expand at least three distinct approaches (different modes, agents, or workflows).
    • Note pros/cons, risk, required verification per approach.
  4. Select candidate plan
    • Pick the best approach and flag what still needs validation.
  5. Seed Tasks
    • Open the Task view (T) and add top-level tasks from the brainstorming takeaways (or run /ctx:plan next to formalize).

Output format

### Problem / Goal
### Success Signals
### Constraints / Risks
### Existing Assets
### Options
- Option A …
- Option B …
- Option C …
### Chosen Direction & Next Checks

Paste the summary into the chat (or save under scenarios/). Then move to /ctx:plan.

Resources

  • See skills/collaboration/brainstorming/resources/examples.md for ready-made follow-up prompts.
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. today First seen · 72 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 832dba68236a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository NickCrew/Claude-Cortex (37 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 571 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 2026-09-03.

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