idea

idea is a skill for Claude Code from tercel/spec-forge. It costs 109 tokens per session (5,812 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

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 Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the spec-forge plugin — 12 skills, 11 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to brainstorm, research demand, challenge assumptions, and record ideas in an ideas/ folder within the project.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install spec-forge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 11 commands.

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Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,812 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 $0.00109 $0.05812
Opus 5.5 $0.00044 $0.02325
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00022 $0.01162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00581

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fd2206ca5d23, 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.

skills/idea/SKILL.md · 609 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 609 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 · 609 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. 1mo ago Changed · -1 lines · +9 tokens per session fd2206ca5d23
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 610 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 46515b9f2e45

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idea is a skill published in the GitHub repository tercel/spec-forge (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 5,812 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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