brainstorm

brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code from SebastianElvis/reaper. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,768 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A recurring research-idea step that reads the current investigation and suggests new or improved hypotheses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to propose research questions after formalizing a problem, between investigation rounds, or with a specific hint such as studying system behavior under limited timing guarantees.
Why use it?
It helps when existing ideas have been resolved or the investigation needs a new direction. It keeps idea generation separate from actually testing ideas.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the reaper plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to propose research questions after formalizing a problem, between investigation rounds, or with a specific hint such as studying system behavior under limited timing guarantees.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sebastianelvis/reaper/brainstorm
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add SebastianElvis/reaper --skill brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SebastianElvis/reaper

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install reaper, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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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 1,768 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 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 $0.00043 $0.01768
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00884
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00354
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00177

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0b259f991884, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brainstorm 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 9d 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.

skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorm

The recurring ideation step. Reads the current research state and proposes new or refined ideas for investigation. This skill is lightweight and fast — it generates ideas, not experiments.

Usage

Invoke this skill by name; pass an optional context hint as a quoted string. On slash-command hosts, prefix with / (e.g. /brainstorm "<hint>").

# Generate ideas based on current state
brainstorm

# With a hint about what direction to explore
brainstorm "explore liveness under partial synchrony"

Relationship to Other Skills

  • /formalize-problem handles initial formalization: pinning down trust assumptions, the core question, definitional hygiene, and the first set of hypotheses. It runs once.
  • /brainstorm handles recurring ideation: generating additional ideas as the investigation progresses. It runs many times.
  • /investigate handles execution: deep-diving into specific ideas. It does not generate new hypotheses.

Inputs

Always read before starting:

  • reaper-workspace/notes/problem-statement.md — model assumptions and property definitions
  • reaper-workspace/notes/ideas.md — the current ideas and their resolution status
  • reaper-workspace/notes/current-understanding.md — the "branch tip" of accumulated knowledge
  • reaper-workspace/notes/results.md — what's been tried and what happened. If the file is long (20+ rows), read the batch summaries at the end instead of every individual row. Look for patterns in failures across batches, not individual cycle details.

Lazy-load only when needed (skip these unless you're stuck or exploring a specific direction):

  • reaper-workspace/notes/paper-summary.md — the source paper (if provided)
  • reaper-workspace/notes/literature.md — known prior work
  • reaper-workspace/notes/clarified-goal.md — refined research goal and scope
  • reaper-workspace/papers/ — downloaded PDFs and per-paper notes
  • The optional context hint from the argument

Process

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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. 9d ago First seen · 150 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 0b259f991884

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brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository SebastianElvis/reaper (9 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,768 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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