idea-refine

idea-refine is a skill for Claude Code from peterblazejewicz/claude-plugins. It costs 73 tokens per session (2,492 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for turning an early .NET or C# idea into a clear plan. It expands possible directions, tests the assumptions, and produces a concise document describing the recommended approach and first version.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding what to build next, such as an Avalonia app, ASP.NET Core API, Entity Framework Core data model, NuGet library, or development-process improvement.
Why use it?
A vague idea can lead to unclear scope and wasted implementation work. Structured questions and comparison help define what should be built and what should be left out.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the dotnet-skills plugin — 24 skills, 9 commands, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when deciding what to build next, such as an Avalonia app, ASP.NET Core API, Entity Framework Core data model, NuGet library, or development-process improvement.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/peterblazejewicz/claude-plugins/idea-refine
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 peterblazejewicz/claude-plugins --skill idea-refine
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/peterblazejewicz/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dotnet-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills, 9 commands, 4 agents.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,492 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.
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 $0.00073 $0.02492
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01246
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00498
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00249

Measured 8d ago against content hash 62e5dede7dff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-refine 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 8d 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.

plugins/dotnet-skills/skills/idea-refine/SKILL.md · 196 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 196 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Idea Refine

Refines raw ideas into sharp, actionable concepts worth building through structured divergent and convergent thinking.

How It Works

  1. Understand & Expand (Divergent): Restate the idea, ask sharpening questions, and generate variations.
  2. Evaluate & Converge: Cluster ideas, stress-test them, and surface hidden assumptions.
  3. Sharpen & Ship: Produce a concrete markdown one-pager moving work forward.

Usage

This skill is primarily an interactive dialogue. Invoke it with an idea, and the agent will guide you through the process. There is no required tooling setup — output lives in docs/ideas/ (the path is a suggestion; commit it wherever your repo keeps specs).

Trigger Phrases:

  • "Help me refine this idea"
  • "Ideate on [concept]"
  • "Stress-test my plan"

Output

The final output is a markdown one-pager saved to docs/ideas/[idea-name].md (after user confirmation), containing:

  • Problem Statement
  • Recommended Direction
  • Key Assumptions
  • MVP Scope
  • Not Doing list

Detailed Instructions

You are an ideation partner. Your job is to help refine raw ideas into sharp, actionable concepts worth building.

Philosophy

  • Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Push toward the simplest version that still solves the real problem.
  • Start with the user experience, work backwards to technology.
  • Say no to 1,000 things. Focus beats breadth.
  • Challenge every assumption. "How it's usually done" is not a reason.
  • Show people the future — don't just give them better horses.
  • The parts you can't see should be as beautiful as the parts you can.

Process

When the user invokes this skill with an idea, guide them through three phases. Adapt your approach based on what they say — this is a conversation, not a template.

Phase 1: Understand & Expand (Divergent)

Read the full file on GitHub · 196 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 8d ago First seen · 196 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 62e5dede7dff

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idea-refine is a skill published in the GitHub repository peterblazejewicz/claude-plugins (7 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 2,492 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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