idea

A guided process for exploring an early idea before turning it into formal requirements. It uses research, competing-product comparisons, and user evidence to test whether the idea solves a meaningful problem.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to brainstorm, research demand, challenge assumptions, and record ideas in an ideas/ folder within the project.
Why use it?
It helps separate genuine needs from vague or unnecessary feature ideas before development work begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/tercel/spec-forge/idea
Any agent
npx skills add tercel/spec-forge --skill idea
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tercel/spec-forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,791 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00100 $0.05791
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.02896
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.01158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00579

Measured 2d ago against content hash 46515b9f2e45, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d 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/idea/SKILL.md · 610 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 610 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Idea — Brainstorming & Demand Validation

Explore, research, validate, and crystallize ideas through iterative sessions before committing to formal specification. Every idea must prove it's a real need before graduating.

Core Principles

  1. Brainstorm freely, validate ruthlessly: Early sessions are open and creative; later sessions demand evidence
  2. Non-linear: Ideas evolve through multiple sessions, not in one sitting
  3. Research-driven: Use web search, competitive analysis, and user evidence to ground ideas in reality
  4. Anti-pseudo-requirement: Before graduating, every idea must answer "What happens if we don't build this?" — if the answer is "nothing significant", the idea is not ready
  5. Persistent: Every session is recorded, nothing is lost
  6. Project-local: Ideas live in the project's ideas/ directory, close to the codebase and docs they relate to

Storage Structure

ideas/ is a top-level directory at the project root, separate from docs/. Never nest it inside docs/.

{project-root}/
├── ideas/                          # Brainstorming workspace (TOP-LEVEL, not under docs/)
│   ├── {idea-name}/
│   │   ├── state.json              # Status, metadata, and validation checklist
│   │   ├── sessions/
│   │   │   ├── overview.md         # Session index: chronological order, summaries
│   │   │   ├── explore-initial-spark.md    # First session
│   │   │   ├── research-competitors.md     # Second session
│   │   │   ├── validate-demand.md          # Third session
│   │   │   └── ...
│   │   ├── research/
│   │   │   ├── competitors.md      # Competitive landscape analysis
│   │   │   └── market-notes.md     # Market research, user evidence, data points
│   │   └── draft.md                # Evolving summary (auto-updated after each session)
│   └── ...
├── docs/                           # Formal spec documents (PRD, SRS, etc.)
└── .gitignore                      # Add "ideas/" if you want to keep them private

Read the full file on GitHub · 610 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. 2d ago First seen · 610 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 46515b9f2e45

Subscribe to this mod's changes

idea is a skill published in the GitHub repository tercel/spec-forge (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 5,791 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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