brand-ideation

brand-ideation is a skill for Claude Code from rampstackco/claude-skills. It costs 147 tokens per session (2,205 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for exploring early brand ideas, including positioning, names, visual directions, and story angles, before choosing a final direction.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to brainstorm names, compare brand territories, create moodboard directions, develop origin stories, or test an existing brand idea.
Why use it?
It helps narrow many possible concepts into one promising path before investing in a logo, visual identity, or style guide.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the rampstack-skills plugin — 103 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to brainstorm names, compare brand territories, create moodboard directions, develop origin stories, or test an existing brand idea.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rampstackco/claude-skills/brand-ideation
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 rampstackco/claude-skills --skill brand-ideation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rampstack-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 103 skills.

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Per session 147 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,205 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 $0.00147 $0.02205
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.01103
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00441
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00220

Measured 9d ago against content hash af477efaf396, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brand-ideation 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 9d 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/brand-ideation/SKILL.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brand Ideation

Generate and converge on brand directions before committing to identity work. This is upstream of brand-identity (the visual system) and brand-style-guide (the documentation). It is the divergent-then-convergent thinking phase where ideas are cheap and direction matters more than polish.


When to use

  • Generating naming options for a new brand or product
  • Exploring positioning territories before committing
  • Building moodboards and visual direction options
  • Drafting narrative or origin-story angles
  • Helping the user converge from many half-ideas to one direction
  • Stress-testing an existing brand idea before investing in identity work

When NOT to use

  • The brand direction is already locked, the user wants logo and identity work (use brand-identity)
  • Documenting an existing brand system (use brand-style-guide)
  • Defining voice for an existing brand (use brand-voice)
  • Initial discovery and audience research (use brand-discovery)

Required inputs

  • The category or product type
  • The audience (at least roughly)
  • The reason this brand exists (the problem it solves or the gap it fills)
  • Constraints (existing brand assumptions, parent brand, regulatory limits)
  • Number of directions desired (typically 3 to 5)

If the audience is unclear, run brand-discovery first.


The framework: 4 stages

Brand ideation moves through four stages. Each stage diverges (generate options) then converges (pick a direction).

Stage 1: Positioning territories

A positioning territory is the strategic space the brand occupies. It is not a tagline. It is the answer to "what does this brand stand for that competitors do not?"

Generate 3 to 5 territories using these angles:

  • Functional benefit. "The fastest way to X." (Risk: easy to copy.)
  • Emotional benefit. "The brand that makes you feel Y." (Risk: vague if not earned.)
  • Identity. "For people who are Z." (Risk: alienates non-Z customers.)
  • Antagonist. "The opposite of [incumbent]." (Risk: defines you by them.)
  • Originator. "The first or only one to do W." (Risk: must be defensible.)
  • Worldview. "We believe V." (Risk: must be lived, not just stated.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 182 lines · 147 tokens per session scan A af477efaf396

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brand-ideation is a skill published in the GitHub repository rampstackco/claude-skills (830 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 147 tokens to every session and 2,205 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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