brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rpamis/comet. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,220 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for turning an idea into an agreed design before changing a software project. It first examines the project, asks clarifying questions one at a time, and then presents the design for approval.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. It helps define the project context, user intent, requirements, and proposed design.
Why use it?
It brings hidden assumptions and unclear requirements to light before coding begins. This reduces the chance of building the wrong feature or changing behavior unexpectedly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it before creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. It helps define the project context, user intent, requirements, and proposed design.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rpamis/comet/brainstorming
About the project

Comet is a resumable workflow and skill platform for coding tasks, covering requirements work as well as skill creation, evaluation, and release. It supports separate Native and Classic workflows and can coordinate implementation and verification across isolated Git worktrees. The catalogue contains skills and instructions that implement Comet-related workflows.

rpamis/comet · 3,193 stars · on GitHub · docs.comet.rpamis.com

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 rpamis/comet --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rpamis/comet

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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/rpamis/comet/brainstorming/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/rpamis/comet/brainstorming)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rpamis/comet/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rpamis/comet/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/rpamis/comet/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rpamis/comet/brainstorming.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,220 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 22
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00037 $0.02220
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00888
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00444
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00222

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e14914605f64, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/helper.js, scripts/server.cjs, scripts/start-server.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

eval/local/skills/benchmarks/dependency/superpowers/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs

Help turn ideas into fully formed designs and specs through natural collaborative dialogue.

Start by understanding the current project context, then ask questions one at a time to refine the idea. Once you understand what you're building, present the design and get user approval.

Anti-Pattern: "This Is Too Simple To Need A Design"

Every project goes through this process. A todo list, a single-function utility, a config change — all of them. "Simple" projects are where unexamined assumptions cause the most wasted work. The design can be short (a few sentences for truly simple projects), but you MUST present it and get approval.

Checklist

You MUST create a task for each of these items and complete them in order:

  1. Explore project context — check files, docs, recent commits
  2. Offer the visual companion just-in-time — NOT upfront. The first time a question would genuinely be clearer shown than described, offer it then (its own message); on approval its browser tab opens for you. If no visual question ever arises, never offer it. See the Visual Companion section below.
  3. Ask clarifying questions — one at a time, understand purpose/constraints/success criteria
  4. Propose 2-3 approaches — with trade-offs and your recommendation
  5. Present design — in sections scaled to their complexity, get user approval after each section
  6. Write design doc — save to docs/superpowers/specs/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>-design.md and commit
  7. Spec self-review — quick inline check for placeholders, contradictions, ambiguity, scope (see below)
  8. User reviews written spec — ask user to review the spec file before proceeding
  9. Transition to implementation — invoke writing-plans skill to create implementation plan

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 1mo ago First seen · 160 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A e14914605f64

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository rpamis/comet (3,193 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,220 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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