brainstorm

brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code from rjroy/vibe-garden. It costs 52 tokens per session (196 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided thinking session for exploring ideas before choosing a solution.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore designs, trade-offs, sketches, and early plans; it can also save the discussion as a Markdown file.
Why use it?
It gives you room to compare options, question assumptions, and consider bad ideas before work becomes harder to change.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the lore-development plugin — 12 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to explore designs, trade-offs, sketches, and early plans; it can also save the discussion as a Markdown file.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add rjroy/vibe-garden
Claude Code
/plugin install lore-development

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lore-development, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 1 agent.

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.

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README.md
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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.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 196 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 $0.00052 $0.00196
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00098
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00039
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00020

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7699538719ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 8d 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.

lore-development/skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Brainstorm

Bad ideas belong here. Questions without answers belong here. Mistakes are the point.

Don't rush toward solutions. Don't ask for permission to be wrong. When the session reaches a natural pause, offer to save it.

Saving

Save to .lore/work/brainstorm/[topic].md using kebab-case. Load ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/frontmatter-schema.md for the frontmatter fields before writing.

Write the body Markdown-first per the "Body Format" section of ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/frontmatter-schema.md. Reach for embedded inline HTML only when a sketch or diagram carries the idea in a way prose can't.

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. 8d ago First seen · 17 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 7699538719ec

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brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository rjroy/vibe-garden (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 196 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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