bulwark-brainstorm

bulwark-brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code from QBall-Inc/the-bulwark. It costs 50 tokens per session (7,133 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured brainstorming process that asks several role-based reviewers to assess an idea. It supports a scoped mode with separate review stages and an exploratory mode where reviewers debate together.

In plain words
What is it for?
Evaluating feasibility, validating ideas, exploring architecture, and producing implementation recommendations.
Why use it?
It brings product, technical, delivery, and critical viewpoints into one assessment instead of relying on a single perspective.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the the-bulwark plugin — 30 skills, 17 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Evaluating feasibility, validating ideas, exploring architecture, and producing implementation recommendations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/qball-inc/the-bulwark/bulwark-brainstorm
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 QBall-Inc/the-bulwark --skill bulwark-brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/QBall-Inc/the-bulwark

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install the-bulwark, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 30 skills, 17 agents, 6 hooks.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,133 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 $0.00050 $0.07133
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.03566
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.01427
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00713

Measured 11d ago against content hash 758df73f882d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bulwark-brainstorm 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • brainstorm — 97% identical, 1,137 lines differ
skills/bulwark-brainstorm/SKILL.md · 575 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 575 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bulwark Brainstorm

Role-based brainstorming on a given topic with two execution modes:

  • --scoped (default): Sequential Task tool pipeline — Project SME first, 3 role agents in parallel, Critical Analyst last. Best when the problem statement is well understood and you need focused implementation brainstorming.
  • --exploratory: Agent Teams peer debate — Project SME first, then 3 AT teammates (Product & Delivery Lead, Architect, Critical Analyst) debating collaboratively. Best when validating whether an idea has merit and the problem framing is uncertain.

Both modes synthesize into a single brainstorm document with actionable recommendations.

Invocation arguments: $ARGUMENTS


When to Use This Skill

Load this skill when the user request matches ANY of these patterns:

Trigger Pattern Example User Request
Implementation evaluation "Should we build X?", "Evaluate this approach"
Feasibility assessment "Is this feasible?", "How would we implement X?"
Architecture brainstorm "Design the approach for X", "How should X fit into our system?"
Post-research planning "We've researched X, now plan the implementation"
Role-based analysis "Get PM/architect/dev perspectives on X"

DO NOT use for:

  • Initial topic research (use bulwark-research first)
  • Quick technical questions (ask directly)
  • Code review (use code-review)
  • Debugging (use issue-debugging)

Dependencies

Category Files Requirement When to Load
Role definitions references/role-*.md REQUIRED Load each before spawning its agent
Role output template templates/role-output.md REQUIRED Include in PM, Architect, Dev Lead prompts
Critic output template templates/critic-output.md REQUIRED Include in Critical Analyst prompt
Synthesis template templates/synthesis-output.md REQUIRED Use when writing synthesis
Subagent prompting subagent-prompting skill REQUIRED Load at Stage 1 for 4-part prompt template
AT teammate prompts references/at-teammate-prompts.md REQUIRED (--exploratory only) Load at Stage 3B for AT prompt structure
Research synthesis --research <file> OPTIONAL If provided, include in all agent prompts

Read the full file on GitHub · 575 lines

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 · 575 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 758df73f882d

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bulwark-brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository QBall-Inc/the-bulwark (8 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 7,133 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 2026-08-31.

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