brainstorm

brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from skymanbp/sci-paper. It costs 0 tokens per session (10,247 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A method for exploring many research ideas or possible solutions from one starting topic or problem. It arranges ideas in a branching tree, with each layer expanding on the previous one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for divergent research brainstorming or for systematically finding approaches to a difficult concrete problem.
Why use it?
It helps avoid stopping at the first obvious idea when a problem needs broad exploration.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the sci-paper plugin — 12 skills 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/skymanbp/sci-paper/brainstorm
Any agent
npx skills add skymanbp/sci-paper --skill brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skymanbp/sci-paper

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install sci-paper, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for brainstorm

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/skymanbp/sci-paper/brainstorm.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/skymanbp/sci-paper/brainstorm)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/skymanbp/sci-paper/brainstorm"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/skymanbp/sci-paper/brainstorm.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,247 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00000 $0.10247
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.05123
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.02049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.01025

Measured 3d ago against content hash fa1c54a81596, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 3d 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 · 460 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 3d ago First seen · 460 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A fa1c54a81596

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brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository skymanbp/sci-paper (5 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 10,247 tokens. 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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