socratic-brainstorm

socratic-brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code from TheBeardedBearSAS/claude-craft. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,244 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A question-based planning guide for clarifying a coding problem before implementation. It uses targeted questions about goals, users, constraints, alternatives, and success.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore requirements, compare simpler approaches, identify constraints, and define how a feature will be judged.
Why use it?
It helps prevent building the wrong solution when requirements are unclear or the work is complex.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: context: fork in frontmatter.

Part of the claude-craft plugin — 56 skills, 94 commands, 47 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to explore requirements, compare simpler approaches, identify constraints, and define how a feature will be judged.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thebeardedbearsas/claude-craft/socratic-brainstorm
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 TheBeardedBearSAS/claude-craft --skill socratic-brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheBeardedBearSAS/claude-craft

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-craft, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 56 skills, 94 commands, 47 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,244 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00047 $0.01244
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00622
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00249
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00124

Measured 8d ago against content hash 9f01770dfad4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

socratic-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 8d 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.

.claude/skills/socratic-brainstorm/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Socratic Brainstorm — Clarifier avant de coder

Skill inspiré de obra/superpowers. Objectif : forcer une phase de questions ciblées avant toute implémentation, pour éviter de coder la mauvaise chose très vite.

Règle d'or : une question coûte 30 secondes, un faux développement coûte 3 jours.

Méthode socratique : 5 familles de questions

À poser avant de toucher au code. Pas toutes à chaque fois — choisir les plus pertinentes selon le contexte.

1. Questions sur le PROBLÈME

  • Quel est le vrai problème à résoudre ? (pas la solution supposée)
  • Pour qui ? Quel persona / rôle utilisateur ?
  • Quel est le coût de ne rien faire ?
  • Comment mesurera-t-on le succès ? (KPI, métrique)
  • Y a-t-il une solution plus simple qui résout 80% du besoin ?

2. Questions sur les CONTRAINTES

  • Contraintes métier : règles légales, compliance, SLA ?
  • Contraintes techniques : stack imposée, dépendances, legacy ?
  • Contraintes temporelles : deadline, dépendances externes ?
  • Contraintes ressources : budget infra, RH, maintenance long terme ?
  • Que ne faut-il surtout pas casser ?

3. Questions sur les ALTERNATIVES

  • Quelles sont les 3 approches possibles ? (minimum)
  • Pourquoi celle-ci plutôt qu'une autre ?
  • Qu'a-t-on déjà essayé / envisagé ?
  • Existe-t-il une solution off-the-shelf (lib, SaaS) ?
  • Peut-on ne rien coder (config, manuel, process) ?

4. Questions sur les HYPOTHÈSES

  • Qu'est-ce qu'on suppose sans avoir vérifié ?
  • Quel est le volume / trafic attendu ?
  • Quel est le pattern d'usage réel (95% cas / 5% edge cases) ?
  • Quels acteurs externes impliqués ? (API tierces, équipes, utilisateurs)
  • Que se passe-t-il si cette hypothèse est fausse ?

5. Questions sur les CONSÉQUENCES

  • Qu'est-ce qui change pour l'utilisateur final ?
  • Impact sur les autres features / modules ?
  • Coûts d'exploitation (infra, monitoring, support) ?
  • Comment rollback si ça tourne mal ?
  • Comment évolue cette solution dans 1 an, 3 ans ?

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 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. 8d ago First seen · 124 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 9f01770dfad4

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socratic-brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheBeardedBearSAS/claude-craft (105 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,244 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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