brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from romiluz13/cc-teams. It costs 18 tokens per session (2,207 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided discussion process for turning a rough software idea into a clear design by first understanding its purpose, constraints, and signs of success.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before creating features, components, or system changes, and optionally expand an existing specification file through structured questions.
Why use it?
It helps resolve vague requirements and competing approaches before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the cc-teams plugin — 17 skills, 14 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/romiluz13/cc-teams/brainstorming
Any agent
npx skills add romiluz13/cc-teams --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/romiluz13/cc-teams

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install cc-teams, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 14 agents.

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/romiluz13/cc-teams/brainstorming.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/romiluz13/cc-teams/brainstorming)
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/romiluz13/cc-teams/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/romiluz13/cc-teams/brainstorming.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,207 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00018 $0.02207
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.01104
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00441
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00221

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2da765290e21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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.

plugins/cc-teams/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 364 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 364 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs

Overview

Help turn rough ideas into fully formed designs through collaborative dialogue. Don't jump to solutions - explore the problem space first.

Core principle: Understand what to build BEFORE designing how to build it.

Violating the letter of this process is violating the spirit of brainstorming.

The Iron Law

NO DESIGN WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING PURPOSE AND CONSTRAINTS

If you can't articulate why the user needs this and what success looks like, you're not ready to design.

When to Use

ALWAYS before:

  • Creating new features
  • Building new components
  • Adding new functionality
  • Modifying existing behavior
  • Making architectural decisions

Signs you need to brainstorm:

  • Requirements feel vague
  • Multiple approaches seem valid
  • Success criteria unclear
  • User intent ambiguous

Spec File Workflow (Optional)

If user references a spec file (SPEC.md, spec.md, plan.md):

  1. Read existing spec - Use as interview foundation
  2. Interview to expand - Fill gaps using Phase 2 questions
  3. Write back - Save expanded design to same file
# Check for existing spec (permission-free)
Read(file_path="SPEC.md")  # or spec.md if that doesn't exist

The Process

Phase 1: Understand Context

Before asking questions:

  1. Check project state (files, docs, recent commits)
  2. Understand what exists
  3. Identify relevant patterns
# Check recent context (permission-free)
Bash(command="git log --oneline -10")
Bash(command="ls -la src/")  # or relevant directory

Phase 2: Explore the Idea (One Question at a Time)

Use AskUserQuestion tool - provides multiple choice options, better UX than text questions.

Ask questions sequentially, not all at once.

Question 1: Purpose

"What problem does this solve for users?"

Options format:

A. [Specific use case 1] B. [Specific use case 2] C. Something else (please describe)

Question 2: Users

"Who will use this feature?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 364 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. 4d ago First seen · 364 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 2da765290e21

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository romiluz13/cc-teams (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 2,207 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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