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.
npx skills add rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills --skill idea-generatorgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/idea-generator)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/idea-generator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/idea-generator/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.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00057 | $0.04207 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00028 | $0.02103 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00841 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00421 |
Grade A, and why
idea-generator 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 5d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 371 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Idea Generator Skill
Generates a ranked shortlist of 3-5 app ideas tailored to the developer's skills, interests, and constraints. Output is formatted to feed directly into the product-agent skill for validation.
When This Skill Activates
Use this skill when the user:
- Doesn't have an app idea yet
- Says "what should I build?" or "I don't know what to build"
- Wants to brainstorm app ideas
- Is stuck after a previous idea was rejected or abandoned
- Wants to explore what's possible with a specific technology (e.g., "what can I build with Foundation Models?")
- Wants inspiration based on their skills or domain expertise
- Asks for a brainstorm session
Already has a specific idea? Skip this skill. Use the product-agent skill instead.
What This Skill Does
1. Developer Profile Elicitation
Gathers context about the developer to personalize ideas:
- Technical skills — Languages, frameworks, platforms (Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, CloudKit, etc.)
- Domain interests — Health, finance, productivity, education, creativity, etc.
- Platform preference — iOS, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, visionOS, or multi-platform
- Time availability — Side project (5-10 hrs/week), full-time, weekend hack
- Constraints — Budget, backend experience, design skills, existing audience
2. Five Brainstorming Lenses
Each lens generates 5-8 raw ideas. Lenses are applied in order:
- Skills & Interests — What can you uniquely build given what you know?
- Problem-First — What took 30 seconds today that should take 5? What's annoying?
- Technology-First — Which Apple frameworks have few indie apps? (Foundation Models, ActivityKit, WidgetKit, VisionKit, WeatherKit, MapKit)
- Market Gap — Where are App Store categories underserved, stale, or overpriced?
- Trend-Based — What macro trends create new app opportunities? (AI-native, privacy-first, health/wellness, single-use utilities, Apple Silicon productivity)
3. Feasibility Filtering
Each raw idea is evaluated against five filters:
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 371 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A bfcb79790e03
idea-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills (710 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 4,207 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 2026-09-03.
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