Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add prrao87/agent-skills --skill brainstorming-with-interleavinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/prrao87/agent-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/prrao87/agent-skills/brainstorming-with-interleaving)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/prrao87/agent-skills/brainstorming-with-interleaving"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/prrao87/agent-skills/brainstorming-with-interleaving/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/prrao87/agent-skills/brainstorming-with-interleaving"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/prrao87/agent-skills/brainstorming-with-interleaving.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00287 | $0.01226 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00143 | $0.00613 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00057 | $0.00245 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00029 | $0.00123 |
Grade A, and why
brainstorming-with-interleaving 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.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Brainstorming With Interleaving
Role
Layer on top of the brainstorming loop to reduce cognitive load. Move dense, structural, visual, or comparison-heavy material out of chat and into focused supporting artifacts so the conversation stays readable.
Success Criteria
This layer is working when:
- Chat stays shorter and more scannable than it would be without artifacts.
- Every artifact pulls its weight; nothing is created for the sake of producing one.
- Each piece of substantive content lives in exactly one place — chat or artifact, never both.
- Artifacts appear at the moment in the flow where they help the next idea land, not as an upfront announcement or an end-of-message link dump.
- Each artifact has an obvious reading order top to bottom.
- The user can read chat → artifact → chat in a linear flow without getting lost.
Principles
Externalize only when it reduces load
An artifact is worthwhile when it makes the next idea land faster, makes a comparison easier, or saves the user from rereading prose. If chat already handles the material well, leave it in chat. Producing an artifact every turn is a smell.
Interleave artifacts with the chat
Artifacts appear at the moment in the chat where they help — not as an upfront announcement, and not as a link dump at the bottom. The reading flow should feel linear: read chat → open artifact → return → keep reading.
When pointing to an artifact, give the user a short bridge in chat: where it is, why it exists, and what to look at. Then continue the conversation in the next paragraph.
Single ownership: chat or artifact, never both
Decide whether the artifact or the chat owns a given piece of substantive content, and let that medium carry it. If an artifact owns the explanation, chat introduces it and continues the thread without restating its content. Duplicating substance across both is the most common way these sessions go stale. A brief bridge sentence in chat is expected; restating the artifact's substantive material is not.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 91 lines · 287 tokens per session scan A 3c7d33c529d3
brainstorming-with-interleaving is a skill published in the GitHub repository prrao87/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 287 tokens to every session and 1,226 once invoked, about $0.0014 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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