What is brainstorming?

A structured way to turn an unclear idea into an agreed design before coding, or to test a plan by questioning its assumptions. It can be used for features, system design, refactoring, and workflow changes.

Use it to shape a vague feature, review an architecture proposal, stress-test a plan, or decide how a development workflow should work.

It helps expose missing decisions and weak points before implementation makes them expensive to change.

brainstorming — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by tomwangowa

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 tomwangowa/agent-skills --skill brainstorming

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tomwangowa/agent-skills

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tomwangowa/agent-skills/brainstorming/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tomwangowa/agent-skills/brainstorming)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tomwangowa/agent-skills/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tomwangowa/agent-skills/brainstorming/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tomwangowa/agent-skills/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tomwangowa/agent-skills/brainstorming.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 6,165 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 unknown 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00084	$0.06165
Opus 5.5	$0.00034	$0.02466
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00017	$0.01233
Haiku 4.5	$0.00008	$0.00617

Measured 18d ago against content hash 9d42629e8808, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brainstorming 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 18d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/helper.js, scripts/server.cjs, scripts/start-server.sh, …), 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.

brainstorming/SKILL.md · 601 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

7 files 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.

18d ago Changed 9d42629e8808
2mo ago First seen · 601 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A dbf3136603c7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository tomwangowa/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 6,165 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

Planning

brainstorming next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
brainstormingtomwangowa/agent-skills	Skill	2	today	none	A	84	Claude Code, Codex
imagegenopenai/codex	Skill	134k	today	Apache-2.0	A	113	Codex
local-ai-agentsmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners	Skill	79k	today	MIT	A	200	Claude Code, Codex
playwright-climicrosoft/playwright	Skill	99k	today	Apache-2.0	A	19	Claude Code
systematic-debuggingobra/superpowers	Skill	314k	3d ago	MIT	A	21	Claude Code
next-cache-components-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	today	MIT	A	95	Claude Code
chat-pet-sprite-creationmicrosoft/vscode	Skill	195k	today	MIT	A	53	Claude Code, Codex