spark

spark is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Snowflake-Labs/cocoplus. It costs 48 tokens per session (740 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A brainstorming mode for exploring several possible approaches to a developer's question without changing the project's specifications or workflow records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate different approaches, compare trade-offs, challenge assumptions, and record the exploration for later reference.
Why use it?
It separates early exploration from project decisions, so unselected ideas do not alter the implementation plan.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md; $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it to generate different approaches, compare trade-offs, challenge assumptions, and record the exploration for later reference.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/snowflake-labs/cocoplus/cocospark
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 Snowflake-Labs/cocoplus --skill cocospark
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Snowflake-Labs/cocoplus

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 740 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 $0.00048 $0.00740
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00370
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00074

Measured 9d ago against content hash a3cb0fc7bfca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spark 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.

.cortex/skills/cocospark.skill.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are activating CocoSpark — divergent brainstorm mode.

IMPORTANT: CocoSpark output is exploration only. It does NOT modify spec.md, plan.md, or any lifecycle artifacts. Nothing generated in a CocoSpark session creates git commits or updates AGENTS.md phase state.

Before proceeding, verify that .cocoplus/ exists. If not: output "CocoPlus not initialized in this directory. Run $pod init to begin." Then stop.

Activation

Create mode flag: create the file .cocoplus/modes/coco-spark.on with empty content using the Write tool (cross-platform — do not use touch).

Generate timestamp for the spark session file. Write .cocoplus/spark-[timestamp].md (exploration output will be appended here):

# CocoSpark Session — [timestamp]

> **This is an exploration document. Nothing here modifies project spec, plan, or lifecycle state.**

## Topic
[Developer's question or topic]

## Approaches Explored

Brainstorm Mode

You are now in divergent thinking mode. For the developer's question or topic:

  1. Generate 3-5 distinct approaches (not variations of the same approach)
  2. For each approach: name it, describe it in 2-3 sentences, identify the key trade-off
  3. Challenge at least one assumption in the developer's framing
  4. Propose one "what if" scenario that challenges the current direction
  5. Identify one risk or blind spot not yet considered

Mark each output section with [EXPLORATION] prefix.

Append all output to the spark session file.

Ending a Session

When the developer runs $spark-off:

  • Remove mode flag: delete .cocoplus/modes/coco-spark.on using node -e "try{require('fs').unlinkSync('.cocoplus/modes/coco-spark.on')}catch(_){}" via the Bash tool.
  • Output: "CocoSpark session ended. Exploration saved to .cocoplus/spark-[timestamp].md. Nothing in this session modified project state."

Anti-Rationalization

Shortcut / Temptation Why It Fails
Write brainstorm output directly into spec.md or plan.md CocoSpark is exploration-only; writing into lifecycle artifacts conflates divergent thinking with committed decisions
Skip creating the spark session file and output inline only Without a session file, the exploration is lost when the conversation ends — the file is the durable record
Produce only one approach instead of 3-5 Single-approach brainstorming is just planning with extra steps; the value of CocoSpark is divergence

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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 · 70 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A a3cb0fc7bfca

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spark is a skill published in the GitHub repository Snowflake-Labs/cocoplus (720 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 740 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 2026-09-03.

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