brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from seaworld008/Commonly-used-high-value-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (962 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of brainstorming, MIT.

A guided method for turning an early product or engineering idea into an implementation-ready design.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for exploring context, refining a solution through focused questions, comparing approaches, and presenting a design for approval.
Why use it?
It helps uncover goals, constraints, tradeoffs, and unanswered questions before code is written.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for exploring context, refining a solution through focused questions, comparing approaches, and presenting a design for approval.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/seaworld008/commonly-used-high-value-skills/brainstorming
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 seaworld008/Commonly-used-high-value-skills --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/seaworld008/Commonly-used-high-value-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 962 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 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00043 $0.00962
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00481
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00192
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00096

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6e477bf91f43, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to brainstorming — 109 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

openclaw-skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs

When to Use

Use this skill before:

  • building a new feature
  • changing behavior in a meaningful way
  • creating a new component or workflow
  • turning a rough idea into an implementation-ready design

Usage

Use a short design discussion when consequential choices remain open. If the user has already supplied a workable design and asked for implementation, record the essential assumptions and proceed with the authorized work. For small, reversible changes, a concise inline design is enough.

inspect current context
-> identify decisions that affect the outcome
-> resolve consequential gaps
-> state the chosen approach and acceptance checks
-> implement when authorized

Decision Boundaries

Ask for input when the answer changes the product goal, user experience, public contract, data retention, or an irreversible action. Use existing project patterns for routine implementation choices. Continue independent research and preparation while a necessary answer is pending. An explicit brainstorming-only request remains a discussion task.

Practical Design Checklist

  1. Read the relevant code, requirements, and previous decisions.
  2. State the problem, intended user, and observable success criteria.
  3. Identify only the uncertainties that materially affect the solution.
  4. Compare alternatives when there is a real tradeoff; do not manufacture options.
  5. Choose a small, coherent implementation and explain its main tradeoff.
  6. Record an enduring design document only when future work needs it.
  7. Continue into implementation if the user requested execution.

Example

Request: Add CSV export to the existing table.
Known: Current filters and columns define the exported data.
Decision: Reuse the existing authorized data-fetch path.
Check: Export filtered rows, escape CSV cells, preserve column order.
Clarify only if export scope or access requirements remain ambiguous.

Handoff

Use a written plan when dependencies or scope need one. Do not require a second plan or approval merely to invoke another skill. Keep original user constraints and acceptance checks with the handoff.

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 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 Changed · -12 lines 6e477bf91f43
  2. 12d ago First seen · 128 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A b186b164309e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository seaworld008/Commonly-used-high-value-skills (70 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 962 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to brainstorming, differing in 109 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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