q-skystorm

q-skystorm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sdewell/code-quorum. It costs 100 tokens per session (4,001 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A forward-looking research and idea-generation tool that connects a problem to findings from different fields, then explores and checks promising ideas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore emerging directions, find useful ideas from other disciplines, and plan how to validate them.
Why use it?
It helps when ordinary brainstorming is too narrow or when you need to discover less obvious approaches and ways to test them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the code-quorum plugin — 7 skills, 1 hook, 1 MCP server 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/sdewell/code-quorum/q-skystorm
Any agent
npx skills add sdewell/code-quorum --skill q-skystorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sdewell/code-quorum

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install code-quorum, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,001 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 $0.00100 $0.04001
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.02001
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00800
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00400

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2169c7145332, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

q-skystorm 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 2d 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/code-quorum/skills/q-skystorm/SKILL.md · 284 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 284 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Q-Skystorm — map the territory, dream wide, then ground

Completion gate

For every council start, q_await is the blocking completion notification. After completing the host's independent work, call it in the same turn as the start. Do not end the turn, tell the user you will check later, or leave a live job_id pending. If the council is still running, remain in the blocking call until it returns a result or error.

Skystorm is the forward-research companion to q-brainstorm. Brainstorm stays grounded (assemble from solved problems); skystorm dreams past the frontier and then asks how to validate what it found. Research-first is the default: the anchor→harvest→pivot→map protocol surfaces the far-afield domains from the literature, and the dream council is seeded with that evidence — the point is cross-domain transfer driven by published structure, not by model priors alone. Movements: map → dream → ground → synthesize.

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS is the topic, optionally with flags:

  • --no-research — skip the literature mapping (research is the default); the dream stage then runs on the agents' own priors, which is exactly what the mapping exists to improve on — prefer the default.
  • --verbose — lift the terse output caps on both the dream and ground passes (fuller, unabridged ideation). Default is terse.

Strip the flags from the topic before passing topic. If the topic is empty, ask what to explore.

Host routing

When this skill is running in Codex, read references/codex-host.md completely and follow that workflow instead of the steps below. It uses the mcp__quorum_codex__* tools and passes host: "codex".

When running in Claude Code, continue below. Use the mcp__plugin_code-quorum_quorum__* tools and pass host: "claude" on every council start.

If either required MCP tool is absent from the current task's tool registry, stop and report that the plugin MCP server did not load. Do not substitute the synchronous CLI, direct Python imports, or another runtime path: only the registered start/await pair enforces the structural anti-bias gate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 284 lines

Files

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.

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. 2d ago First seen · 284 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 2169c7145332

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q-skystorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository sdewell/code-quorum (0 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 4,001 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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