brainstorm

brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code from oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,471 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive planning process for Elixir and Phoenix features. Phoenix is a web framework for Elixir; the process asks questions, researches options when needed, and records the resulting requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore feature ideas, compare technical approaches, gather requirements, or clarify the scope of work such as notifications or authentication changes.
Why use it?
It turns an unclear idea into clearer decisions and requirements before implementation begins. It also creates notes that a later planning step can use.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the phx plugin — 50 skills, 26 agents, 10 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to explore feature ideas, compare technical approaches, gather requirements, or clarify the scope of work such as notifications or authentication changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix/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 oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix --skill brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install phx, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 50 skills, 26 agents, 10 hooks.

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 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,471 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00039 $0.01471
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00736
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00294
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00147

Measured 9d ago against content hash 877db4052138, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/elixir-phoenix/skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorm — Adaptive Requirements Gathering

Interactive interview → research → synthesis loop. Produces structured interview.md that /phx:plan detects and consumes (skipping clarification).

Usage

/phx:brainstorm Add some kind of notification system
/phx:brainstorm Improve authentication security
/phx:brainstorm                    # starts with open question

Workflow

/phx:brainstorm {topic}
    |
    v
[INTERVIEW] ←──────────────────┐
    |                           |
    v (sufficient OR user exit) |
[DECISION POINT]                |
    ├─ Research ──→ [RESEARCH] ─┘
    ├─ Continue interview ──────┘
    ├─ Make a plan ──→ STOP (suggest /phx:plan {slug})
    ├─ Store & exit ──→ STOP (artifacts saved)
    └─ Discuss ──→ freeform ──→ [DECISION POINT]

Phase 1: Adaptive Interview

Create .claude/plans/{slug}/ directory. Start asking ONE question at a time.

Coverage Dimensions

Track coverage across 6 dimensions (0=uncovered, 1=partial, 2=sufficient). Ask Scope early — for "optimize X" topics, ask about boundaries (upstream OK? Local-only? CI vs dev?) before research, not during.

Dim Target Sufficient signal
What Specific behavior/features Concrete verbs, not "some kind of"
Why Problem solved, user need Clear benefit stated
Scope In/out boundaries Explicit exclusions stated
Where Modules, contexts, pages File paths or context names mentioned
How Approach, constraints At least one concrete constraint
Edge Error states, scale, auth 2+ edge cases identified

Interview is "sufficient" when total score >= 8 out of 12.

Context-Aware Questioning

Before each question, run a brief codebase scan on topics the user mentioned:

  1. User mentions a topic (e.g., "notifications") → run Grep/Glob for related patterns
  2. Use scan results to ground your next question in what actually exists
  3. Unknown/niche topic → suggest research pause before continuing

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 148 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 877db4052138

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix (541 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,471 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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