brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code from reidemeister94/development-skills. It costs 31 tokens per session (317 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided brainstorming workflow for designing or choosing an approach before implementation. It asks one decision at a time, offers a recommendation and waits for confirmation before acting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Exploring alternatives, clarifying purpose and scope, resolving dependencies and agreeing how the result will be evaluated.
Why use it?
It helps resolve ambiguous or consequential choices explicitly instead of beginning work with untested assumptions.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the development-skills plugin — 16 skills, 1 agent, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Exploring alternatives, clarifying purpose and scope, resolving dependencies and agreeing how the result will be evaluated.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/reidemeister94/development-skills/brainstorming
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 reidemeister94/development-skills --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/reidemeister94/development-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install development-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 agent, 2 hooks.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for brainstorming

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/reidemeister94/development-skills/brainstorming/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/reidemeister94/development-skills/brainstorming)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/reidemeister94/development-skills/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/reidemeister94/development-skills/brainstorming/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for brainstorming

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/reidemeister94/development-skills/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/reidemeister94/development-skills/brainstorming.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 317 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 $0.00031 $0.00317
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00159
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00032

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8b2318b9c4af, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brainstorming 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/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

Brainstorming

Interview the user relentlessly about every aspect of this until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the decision tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one. For each question, provide your recommended answer.

Ask the questions one at a time with a recommendation and trade-off, waiting for feedback on each question before continuing. Asking multiple questions at once is bewildering.

If a fact can be found by exploring the environment (filesystem, tools, etc.), look it up rather than asking the user. The decisions, though, are mine — put each one to me and wait for my answer.

Do not act on it until I confirm we have reached a shared understanding, an agree on purpose, scope, solved state, and what evidence would show the proposed answer is wrong.

If $ARGUMENTS is empty, ask what to explore and stop.

Use best-practices when current evidence can change the choice. Persist research only when it remains useful after the task.

Offer genuinely different alternatives and recommend the simplest that meets the result and constraints.

When finished, return to the full development loop if you were already there.

Use AskUserQuestion for decisions.

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 · 27 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 8b2318b9c4af

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository reidemeister94/development-skills (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 317 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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