brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Codex from PANGKAIFENG/ai-product-manager-skills. It costs 171 tokens per session (3,122 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured brainstorming process for choosing a product or implementation approach before writing requirements, designing mockups or planning development.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore two or three designs, agree on a recommended direction, define trade-offs and produce a design specification for downstream work.
Why use it?
It helps compare real alternatives and settle scope, user flows, technical boundaries and visual constraints before work begins.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it to explore two or three designs, agree on a recommended direction, define trade-offs and produce a design specification for downstream work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pangkaifeng/ai-product-manager-skills/brainstorming
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 PANGKAIFENG/ai-product-manager-skills --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PANGKAIFENG/ai-product-manager-skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 171 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,122 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 $0.00171 $0.03122
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.01561
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00624
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00312

Measured 12d ago against content hash d24af44da188, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/check_design_spec.py), 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.

skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 210 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 210 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

设计脑暴(brainstorming)

中文速查

  • 中文名:设计脑暴 / 实现前方案校准
  • 英文稳定名:brainstorming
  • 分类:产品与 PRD / 认知与协作之间的方案收敛桥
  • 状态:core
  • 你可以这样叫我:先脑暴一下方案先不要写 PRD,帮我设计几种路径参考 brainstorming 把这个需求变成设计 spec实现前先讨论设计
  • 适合:问题基本成立,但还没确定产品方案、信息架构、交互路径、技术切分或交付 spec,需要先探索 2-3 个可选设计并得到用户确认
  • 不适合:问题还没定义清楚,改用 ai-collaboration-calibration;已有明确方案要被拷问,改用 grill-me;已经要写正式 PRD,改用 prd-architect

Overview

使用这个 Skill 把“可讨论的想法”推进成“可交付给 PRD、mockup 或开发计划的设计 spec”。它强调先理解上下文、逐步澄清、提出多个方案、确认设计,再进入下游 artifact。

它的默认下游可以是 prd-architectui-mockup-desktop-workbenchprd-to-issues 或实现计划;如果方案涉及 UI/mockup/HTML 可视化,必须先对齐项目已有视觉语言,避免生成与真实产品割裂的通用页面。需要反复压测时显式进入 $solution-loop,而不是创建新的方案 mega Skill。

本 Skill 是方案 Maker:拥有真实备选、推荐与取舍、scope、流程、状态、风险和 Design Delta;不拥有 Critic clearance、PRD/实现 readiness 或发布审批。

Boundary

先判断用户当前阶段:

  • 问题、目标用户、成功标准或约束还不清楚:转 ai-collaboration-calibration,不要急着给方案。
  • 问题已基本成立,但方案、路径、范围、交互或系统设计还没定:使用 brainstorming
  • 用户已经有一个具体方案,想找漏洞、压测失败模式或挑战取舍:转 grill-me
  • 用户明确要 PRD 文档、PRD 模板、PRD 图示或正式需求章节:转 prd-architect
  • 用户已有 PRD/handoff,要判断能否开发、可测试、可交付:转 prd-review
  • 用户已有 PRD 和 UI 规范,要真实桌面端 mockup:转 ui-mockup-desktop-workbench
  • Product Work Graph 的方案发散节点:使用 PUBLIC unqualified brainstorming。只有用户显式调用完整名称 superpowers:brainstorming 时才走该 plugin Skill;不得从未限定的 “brainstorming” 推断它。

Hard Gate

在用户确认设计前,不要做以下事情:

  • 不写生产代码。
  • 不创建完整 PRD。
  • 不生成正式 GitHub issues。
  • 不把方案包装成已经确定的结论。
  • 不进入 Superpowers writing-plans 或其他实现计划。

简单需求也要经过轻量设计确认。确认可以很短,例如:“我建议按方案 B 做,范围只包含 X/Y,不做 Z。你确认后我再写 PRD-lite。”

Workflow

  1. 复述目标和阶段:用一句话说明用户想解决的问题,以及当前是“方案脑暴”而不是执行。
  2. 读取可发现上下文:如果有 PRD、调研文档、代码、截图、UI 规范或历史讨论,先读;不要把可查信息问给用户。UI/mockup 相关任务还要读取 references/visual-design-standards.md
  3. 判断是否需要转路由:按 Boundary 决定是否继续本 Skill。
  4. 澄清关键缺口:一次只问一个会改变方案的问题。优先问目标用户、成功标准、边界、约束、已有资产和不可接受方案。
  5. 提出 2-3 个方案:每个方案必须包含适用前提、优点、代价、失败风险和不选理由。
  6. 给出推荐方案:明确推荐哪一个,或者推荐组合方案,并说明理由。
  7. 分段确认设计:按“范围 / 核心流程 / 信息结构或系统结构 / 异常与人工介入 / 验收口径”拆开确认。复杂设计可以逐段问用户是否认可。
  8. 输出设计 spec:根据任务复杂度输出轻量或标准 spec。需要写文件时,先确认保存位置;默认不强制创建特定目录。UI/mockup 相关 spec 必须包含项目视觉规范发现摘要,或说明启用的默认视觉标准。
  9. 自检 spec:检查 TBD、矛盾、范围漂移、双关要求、缺少验收标准和未关闭待确认项。
  10. 交接下游:按用户目标建议下一步:写 PRD、做 mockup、压测方案、拆 issues 或进入实现计划。

Read the full file on GitHub · 210 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 12d ago First seen · 210 lines · 171 tokens per session scan A d24af44da188

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brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository PANGKAIFENG/ai-product-manager-skills (11 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 171 tokens to every session and 3,122 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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