sermon-brainstorm

sermon-brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code from tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (2,325 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conversation guide for pastors developing a sermon idea into a clear brief. It helps think through a Bible passage, topic, central message, and the main tension without writing the sermon itself.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a passage, topic, or series note through guided questions. The result is a sermon brief that can guide later writing.
Why use it?
It gives structure to early preparation when the pastor has scattered thoughts or feels stuck, so the message becomes clearer before drafting.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the pastor-skills plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to explore a passage, topic, or series note through guided questions. The result is a sermon brief that can guide later writing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills/sermon-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 tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills --skill sermon-brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pastor-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,325 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 $0.00050 $0.02325
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01162
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00465
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00232

Measured 12d ago against content hash b099e2b9a591, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sermon-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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (generate-pdf.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/sermon-brainstorm/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sermon Brainstorm

Think out loud about Sunday's message. Walk away with a clear brief.

Before writing: follow the pastor-foundation skill and load the church profile from ~/.claude/pastor-profile.md. If the profile file is missing, run the pastor-setup skill first.


What This Is

Not a research tool. Not an outline generator. This is a thinking partner.

You bring a passage, a topic, or just a general sense that you need to preach something. We work through it together, one question at a time, until the sermon that was already in you becomes visible on the page.

The brief at the end is yours. The thinking that produced it is yours. This skill just helps you find what you already know.


How to Start

Give me whatever you have. That might be:

  • A specific passage: "I'm preaching John 11:1-44 this Sunday."
  • A topic: "I need to preach on grief. Not sure where to go."
  • A series note: "Third week in a series on prayer. I'm covering Matthew 6:5-15."
  • Total honesty: "I'm preaching this Sunday and I'm stuck."

Minimal input is fine. You do not need to have it figured out before we start. That is the point.


The Conversation

I will ask you questions one at a time. Answer however feels natural. Short answers are fine. Rambling is fine too. I will follow your lead.

This is not a form. It is a conversation. I will adapt based on what you say, skip questions you have already answered, and ask follow-ups when your answer hints at something worth pulling on.

Most brainstorms take 5 to 7 questions. When the picture is clear enough to write a brief, I will do that instead of asking more.


Question Sequence

These are the questions I draw from, in rough order. I will not ask all of them every time.

1. What passage or topic are you working with?

Skip if you already told me. If you gave me a topic but not a passage, I may ask whether you have a text in mind or whether finding the right passage is part of what you need.

2. What's the one thing that jumped out at you when you first read this text?

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 206 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A b099e2b9a591

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sermon-brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills (52 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 2,325 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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