brainstorm

brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tianhanz/ears. It costs 111 tokens per session (646 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A multi-model brainstorming tool that asks several language models to review or develop ideas from a file. It supports reviewer roles such as technical reviewer, scientist, red-team critic, and agent developer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine files such as a README, find flaws, generate ideas, or compare technical and strategic viewpoints.
Why use it?
It gathers different perspectives on the same material instead of relying on one review. You can choose whether the result is a review, brainstorm, critique, or debate.

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/tianhanz/ears/brainstorm
Any agent
npx skills add tianhanz/ears --skill brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tianhanz/ears

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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/tianhanz/ears/brainstorm.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tianhanz/ears/brainstorm)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tianhanz/ears/brainstorm"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tianhanz/ears/brainstorm.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 111 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 646 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 $0.00111 $0.00646
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00323
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00065

Measured 4d ago against content hash 4d069dc65aa1, 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 4d 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 · 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.

Multi-Model Brainstorm

Run multiple LLM models in parallel to review/brainstorm a file from different perspectives.

The argument provided is: $ARGUMENTS

Step 1 — Parse arguments and run the script

Run the brainstorm script with the provided arguments:

python3 scripts/dev/brainstorm.py $ARGUMENTS

Available roles (--role)

Role Perspective
reviewer Senior technical reviewer (default)
scientist Working PI who needs reproducibility tools
community-builder Experienced platform builder (StackOverflow, Reddit)
red-team Adversary finding fatal flaws
visionary 5-year-ahead strategic thinker
agent-developer AI agent developer wanting to participate in science

Available styles (--style)

Style Output structure
review Necessity → Design Quality → Improvements (default)
brainstorm What's Right → Missing → Bold Ideas → Priority Reordering
critique Fatal Flaws → Hidden Assumptions → Uncomfortable Questions → Rescue
debate Contrarian position — strongest case against the current approach

Examples

# Default review of README
python3 scripts/dev/brainstorm.py README.md

# Brainstorm the roadmap from a scientist's perspective
python3 scripts/dev/brainstorm.py docs/ROADMAP.md --role scientist --style brainstorm

# Red-team critique of the API design
python3 scripts/dev/brainstorm.py server/routes/challenges.py --role red-team --style critique

# Debate: argue against the current architecture
python3 scripts/dev/brainstorm.py CLAUDE.md --role visionary --style debate

Step 2 — Present results

Show the full output from all models. Then synthesize:

  1. Consensus — what do all models agree on?
  2. Unique insights — what did only one model suggest?
  3. Conflicts — where do models disagree? Which position is stronger?
  4. Action items — concrete next steps based on the synthesis

Step 3 — If the script fails

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. 4d ago First seen · 70 lines · 111 tokens per session scan A 4d069dc65aa1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository tianhanz/ears (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 646 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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