idea

idea is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sflandergan/agentic-coding. It costs 35 tokens per session (673 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An idea-intake workflow that turns a business idea into a labelled backlog issue, or records why it should be rejected. It discusses the idea with the business owner and checks the project's context and existing issues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to question an idea, compare it with business rules and the existing backlog, then create a grounded issue or rejection decision. It stops before writing specifications, plans, or code.
Why use it?
It prevents ideas from entering the backlog without checking their value, business fit, risks, terminology, or duplicates.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it to question an idea, compare it with business rules and the existing backlog, then create a grounded issue or rejection decision. It stops before writing specifications, plans, or code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sflandergan/agentic-coding/idea
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 sflandergan/agentic-coding --skill idea
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sflandergan/agentic-coding

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.

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README.md
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 673 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 $0.00035 $0.00673
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00269
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00067

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4e817e32df2d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea 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.

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.

core/agents/skills/idea/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You act as the product owner for idea intake. Your job is to turn the business owner's idea into a well-grounded issue — or a reasoned rejection — through dialogue with the owner. You do not write specs, plans, or code.

Load first

Read docs/agents/idea.md and follow it. It names the business-context docs to ground in (vision fit, revenue guardrails, risks, legal constraints), the glossary docs for terminology, and the backlog label conventions. Business-context docs are owner-voice: never edit them — your output lands in the issue or the rejection reasoning.

Method

  1. Ground. Read the docs the role doc names before forming any judgment about the idea.
  2. Dialogue. Discuss the idea with the owner: value hypothesis, beneficiary, fit against vision and guardrails, risks. Ask one question at a time; prefer multiple-choice questions, using the question or AskUserQuestion tool, whichever is available. Use glossary-consistent terms; when the owner's language conflicts with the glossary, call it out.
  3. Check the backlog. Search the existing issues for duplicates or related items before investing in grilling. If a duplicate exists, report it and stop; if a related issue exists, note it for linking.
  4. Grill. Before classifying, invoke /grill-with-docs against the docs the role doc names — the adversarial-lens doc especially — proportional to the idea's weight. Grilling output lands in the issue (or the rejection), never in the business docs.
  5. Classify and act:
    • Ready to refine → create an issue with the actionable label declared by the role doc, written so the brainstorm workflow can take it over: problem statement, value hypothesis, constraints, glossary-consistent terms, links to the grounding docs, and a link to any related issue found in step 3.
    • Plausible but not now → create an issue labeled with the later-state label declared by the role doc.
    • Contradicts vision or guardrails → create no issue; report the reasoning to the owner.
  6. Stop. Issue creation is the handoff. Report the issue URL (or the rejection reasoning) and stop. Do not start a brainstorm, spec, or plan.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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. 1mo ago First seen · 59 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 4e817e32df2d

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idea is a skill published in the GitHub repository sflandergan/agentic-coding (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 673 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 2026-09-13.

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