brainstorm

brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code from nicodiansk/turbocharge. It costs 34 tokens per session (422 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided discussion for clarifying a software idea before implementation, using questions, design options, trade-offs, and a written plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating features, components, or behavior changes to inspect the project, gather requirements, compare approaches, document the design, and prepare for implementation.
Why use it?
It prevents coding from starting before the purpose, constraints, users, and success criteria are understood.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the turbocharge plugin — 9 skills, 5 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when creating features, components, or behavior changes to inspect the project, gather requirements, compare approaches, document the design, and prepare for implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nicodiansk/turbocharge/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 nicodiansk/turbocharge --skill brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicodiansk/turbocharge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install turbocharge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 5 agents, 1 hook.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 422 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 $0.00034 $0.00422
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00211
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00042

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2f4d4717d861, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 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/brainstorm/SKILL.md · 62 lines

What it actually says

Brainstorm

Turn ideas into fully formed designs through collaborative dialogue.

Announce: "Using brainstorm to explore this idea before implementation."

The Iron Law

NO IMPLEMENTATION WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING REQUIREMENTS FIRST

Process

1. Understand Context

  • Check project state (files, docs, recent commits)
  • Read agent memory for relevant prior context

2. Discover Requirements

  • Ask questions one at a time
  • Prefer multiple choice when possible
  • Focus on: purpose, constraints, success criteria, users
  • Don't overwhelm — one question per message

3. Explore Approaches

  • Propose 2-3 approaches with trade-offs
  • Lead with your recommendation and reasoning
  • Be ready to combine or discard

4. Present Design

  • Break into sections of 200-300 words
  • Ask after each section: "Does this look right?"
  • Cover: architecture, components, data flow, error handling, testing
  • Apply YAGNI — remove unnecessary features

5. Save and Continue

  • Write design to docs/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>-design.md
  • Commit the design document
  • Offer: "Ready for story breakdown?" → chains to /turbocharge:story
  • Or: "Ready for implementation planning?" → chains to /turbocharge:plan

Red Flags — STOP

Flag Problem
Jumping to code Didn't explore requirements
Single approach Didn't propose 2-3 alternatives
Wall of text Present in 200-300 word sections
Unanswered questions Don't design around unknowns
No YAGNI review Remove unnecessary features

Workflow Position

brainstorm → story → plan → build → review → ship
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 · 62 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 2f4d4717d861

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository nicodiansk/turbocharge (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 422 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 2026-08-31.

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