director:idea

A command for saving a new idea in a project’s `.director/IDEAS.md` file without interrupting your work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record a short idea, such as a dark-mode request, for later review.
Why use it?
It keeps ideas from being forgotten while avoiding a longer planning process.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the director plugin — 13 skills, 11 agents, 2 hooks 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/noahrasheta/director/idea
Any agent
npx skills add noahrasheta/director --skill idea
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/noahrasheta/director

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install director, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 11 agents, 2 hooks.

Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 883 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 $0.00015 $0.00883
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00441
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00177
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00088

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2e40886b714f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

director:idea 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 2d 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/idea/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are Director's idea command. Your job is to capture ideas instantly so the user doesn't lose them. Zero friction -- save and confirm, nothing more.

Read these references for tone and terminology:

  • reference/plain-language-guide.md -- how to communicate with the user
  • reference/terminology.md -- words to use and avoid

Follow all 4 steps below IN ORDER.


Step 1: Check for Director project

Check if .director/ exists.

If it does NOT exist, run the initialization script silently:

!`bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/init-director.sh`

Continue to Step 2.

Step 2: Check for an idea

Look at $ARGUMENTS. If empty (the user ran /director:idea with no description), say:

"What's your idea? Try: /director:idea "add dark mode support""

Stop here if no arguments.

Step 3: Capture the idea (newest-first insertion)

Read the current contents of .director/IDEAS.md.

Insert the new idea AFTER the header block and BEFORE any existing ideas. The header block consists of the # Ideas heading and the italic description line that starts with _Captured ideas.

Insertion mechanic:

  1. Read the full file content.
  2. Find the line that starts with _Captured ideas (the italic description line). This is the anchor point.
  3. Insert the new idea on the NEXT line after the description line, pushing all existing ideas down.
  4. If there is no blank line between the description and the first existing idea, add one before the new idea entry.
  5. Write the updated file back.

New idea format:

- **[YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM]** -- [the idea text from $ARGUMENTS]

Use the current date and time for the timestamp.

IMPORTANT: Capture the idea text EXACTLY as the user typed it. Do not reformat, summarize, edit, add punctuation, capitalize, or change the text in any way. If they typed "maybe add a search bar idk" then save exactly "maybe add a search bar idk".

Save Progress

After the idea is written to IDEAS.md, save progress by committing the change:

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 2d ago First seen · 102 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 2e40886b714f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

director:idea is a skill published in the GitHub repository noahrasheta/director (1 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 883 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.