brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PANYUXIN6/pyx-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,772 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision-making workflow for uncertain product or software design questions before implementation begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps investigate context, separate independent deliverables, ask focused questions, and settle an approach before building it.
Why use it?
It brings important trade-offs and user-intent decisions into the open when choosing incorrectly could cause costly or hard-to-reverse changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps investigate context, separate independent deliverables, ask focused questions, and settle an approach before building it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/panyuxin6/pyx-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 PANYUXIN6/pyx-skills --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PANYUXIN6/pyx-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for brainstorming

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/panyuxin6/pyx-skills/brainstorming/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/panyuxin6/pyx-skills/brainstorming)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/panyuxin6/pyx-skills/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/panyuxin6/pyx-skills/brainstorming/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for brainstorming

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/panyuxin6/pyx-skills/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/panyuxin6/pyx-skills/brainstorming.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,772 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 Rogue Agent · line 114
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00048 $0.01772
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00886
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00354
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00177

Measured 4d ago against content hash f50c281acf82, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/helper.js, scripts/server.cjs, scripts/start-server.sh, …), 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.

brainstorming/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorm Just Enough

Turn uncertain ideas into decisions that are clear enough to implement. Match the depth of design work to the uncertainty, impact, and cost of being wrong.

Send clear, reversible tasks directly to implementation. Hold implementation only while a materially consequential decision remains unresolved.

Understand the Context

Inspect the relevant project files, conventions, documentation, and existing behavior before asking the user questions.

Determine:

  • Whether the goal and success criteria are clear.
  • Whether multiple approaches have meaningfully different consequences.
  • How broad and reversible the change is.
  • How expensive or dangerous a wrong assumption would be.
  • Which decisions require user intent rather than technical inference.
  • Whether independent deliverables should be separated before refining details.

Discover facts from the available context and reserve questions for information that cannot be inferred reliably.

If a request spans several independent subsystems or outcomes, decompose it only far enough to identify coherent boundaries, dependencies, and a sensible first slice before designing details.

Perform a brief blind-spot pass only when unfamiliar or high-uncertainty territory could hide a constraint that invalidates the apparent direction.

Choose the Appropriate Depth

Choose the least intensive path justified by the available evidence. Use the Fast Path when additional design work is unlikely to change the implementation. Use a Design Brief when an unresolved choice could materially change the solution. Reserve Full Design for concrete high-impact or difficult-to-reverse decisions.

Fast Path

Use the Fast Path when the request is clear, local, low-risk, and easy to reverse.

State only non-obvious assumptions that matter, then continue with the requested work without a design document, alternative proposals, or a separate approval round.

Design Brief

Use a conversational design brief when some uncertainty or meaningful trade-off exists, but the change does not require a durable specification.

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. 4d ago Changed f50c281acf82
  2. 11d ago First seen · 157 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A a0966c78f16c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository PANYUXIN6/pyx-skills (6 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,772 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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