think-brainwriting

think-brainwriting is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills. It costs 67 tokens per session (795 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A written idea-generation method in which several independent streams produce ideas silently before building on and combining them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need many different ideas before choosing among them, such as for product concepts, approaches, names, or solutions.
Why use it?
It avoids the common group-brainstorming problems where people wait to speak, follow the first idea, or conform to the loudest participant.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Part of the thinking-framework-skills plugin — 68 skills, 10 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it when you need many different ideas before choosing among them, such as for product concepts, approaches, names, or solutions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-brainwriting
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 product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills --skill think-brainwriting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install thinking-framework-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 68 skills, 10 commands, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 795 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 $0.00067 $0.00795
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00398
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00080

Measured 11d ago against content hash fdcd41acc37f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

think-brainwriting 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 11d 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.

skills/think-brainwriting/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainwriting

Verbal group brainstorming reliably underperforms: only one person talks at a time (production blocking), and the room anchors on the first speaker. Brainwriting removes those losses by generating ideas silently and in parallel, then building on each other's written ideas. This skill adapts that for solo-plus-AI: produce several genuinely independent idea streams (distinct angles, generated without contaminating each other), then run a build-on round and consolidate into a shortlist. The output is an idea pool. The key is keeping the streams independent first; collapsing into one stream throws away the mechanism that does the work.

When to Use

  • You need breadth of options and want to avoid premature convergence.
  • Anchoring or conformity would otherwise narrow the ideas (a single brainstorm).
  • Early divergent generation, before any selection.

When NOT to Use

  • When you need to converge, rank, or decide (use a decision skill).
  • When deep single-expert reasoning beats breadth.
  • If the result would be volume with no build-on and no selection.

Instructions

When asked to brainwrite, follow these steps:

  1. State the prompt for ideation in one line.
  2. Generate independent streams. Produce 3 to 4 separate idea streams, each from a distinct angle, persona, or constraint, generated as if blind to the others. Keep them visibly separate. Aim for a quota per stream.
  3. Build on, across streams. Now combine and extend: take ideas from one stream and push them with another's logic. This is where brainwriting beats parallel lists.
  4. Consolidate and de-duplicate. Merge near-duplicates; keep the distinct ideas.
  5. Shortlist. Select the strongest ideas to carry forward, noting why.
  6. Emit the idea pool per references/TEMPLATE.md.

Output Format

Use the template in references/TEMPLATE.md. The deliverable is the separate streams, the build-on round, and a consolidated shortlist, not prose.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 11d ago First seen · 61 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A fdcd41acc37f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

think-brainwriting is a skill published in the GitHub repository product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills (15 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 795 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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