brainstorm

brainstorm is a skill for Codex from OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development. It costs 44 tokens per session (3,547 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured way to turn notes, transcripts, brain dumps, or problems into a clear starting point for knowledge work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture a brainstorm, compare it with prior notes, identify tensions, and save a reusable brainstorm document.
Why use it?
It preserves the original wording, checks existing project knowledge, exposes gaps, and resolves the most important questions before planning.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to capture a brainstorm, compare it with prior notes, identify tensions, and save a reusable brainstorm document.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/brainstorm
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development --skill brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development

Made for: Codex.

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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 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,547 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 27
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00044 $0.03547
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01774
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00709
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00355

Measured yesterday against content hash 036b0ccce40e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/repo-profile-cache.py, scripts/visual-companion-server.ts, scripts/visual-probe-server.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.devin/skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Knowledge brainstorm

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger User begins nontrivial knowledge work with notes, a transcript, a brain dump, or a problem to think through (mode: dump); asks to brainstorm, asks what to build, or wants divergent ideas on a subject (mode: ideate); or faces a question genuinely clearer shown than told and approves a local browser view (mode: visual).
Authority Reversible local: writes only plans/brainstorm-{descriptive-name}.md, docs/ideation/<slug>.md plus <slug>.html when format:html is given, .odin/brainstorm/session-<24-hex> session data, and OS-temp visual probe files; rollback is deleting those files and stopping the named managed process. No remote mutation.
Side effect Reads prior knowledge in docs/knowledge/, plans/, and docs/solutions/; mode visual starts a local key-gated HTTP and WebSocket server with an idle timeout and retains its session directory. No other file, VCS, credential, paid, published, or remote change.
Done The active mode's done state holds: dump — the user's language is structurally captured, prior context or its honest absence is shown, tensions and gaps are identified, at most three load-bearing questions are resolved, a reasoned direction is offered, and the origin file is written before plan; ideate — the ideation document records grounded survivors and a reason for every rejection, each candidate cites its basis, one reviewer adjudicated the complete pool, and the result ends at intent clarification; visual — the user saw the options, validated browser events merged with the terminal reply, and the server is stopped or left to its idle timeout.

Inputs

  • mode: dump (default), ideate, or visual. Select from the request; when ambiguous, ask once.
  • Mode dump: the brain dump — pasted meeting notes or transcript, voice-to-text output, bullet points, a document link or path, or loose narration. Optional at invocation; if absent, prompt for it before proceeding and stop if none arrives. Optional, mid-flow: the user's answers to the load-bearing questions. docs/knowledge/, plans/, and docs/solutions/ need not exist; absence is an honest result, not an error.
  • Mode ideate: an identifiable divergent subject (required), an optional leading format:html flag, and the operating repository as the grounding corpus. If the root contains STRATEGY.md, use it as optional strategic context; its absence is not an error. Derive <slug> by lowercasing the subject, replacing each run of non-alphanumeric characters with one hyphen, and trimming leading and trailing hyphens; reject an empty result.
  • Mode visual: a visual question — a real mockup, layout, diagram, visual comparison, or spatial relationship — plus the project directory. Optional: idle timeout in minutes from 1 through 1440 (default 240). Requires Bun exactly 1.4.0 and a host managed-process primitive that launches, reads readiness and exit, and stops a long-running process by one stable name; without either, fail explicitly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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. yesterday Changed · +20 lines · -14 tokens per session 036b0ccce40e
  2. 4d ago First seen · 55 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 985ab1a438c4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development (52 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 3,547 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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