brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Tx1207/hello-scholar. It costs 46 tokens per session (1,845 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design process for a new capability or a significant change to an interface, behavior, or module. It records the design as a reviewable specification and stops before implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore options for a new feature or major change, define its scope, and establish the specification that implementation will follow.
Why use it?
It separates design decisions from coding so material trade-offs can be reviewed and approved first.

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/tx1207/hello-scholar/brainstorming
Any agent
npx skills add Tx1207/hello-scholar --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Tx1207/hello-scholar

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 brainstorming

README.md
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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,845 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 5.1 $0.00046 $0.01845
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00923
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00369
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00185

Measured 5d ago against content hash aaf5447bdd72, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, 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 5d 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/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming

Turn a material design request into one reviewable Spec Bundle. Keep design, Spec identity, Plan, Tasks, implementation, and experiments in their separate owners.

1. Confirm that design work is needed

Enter for a new capability, a material external behavior/interface/module change, or material tradeoffs that project facts cannot resolve. Routine implementation, a small internal correction within an accepted contract, and existing-code experiments do not enter this Skill: continue the current Task flow or use $record-experiment for the experiment.

Once entered, do not implement source code, create a Plan or Tasks, or run an implementation skill before the Spec is accepted.

Completion: the request has either remained on its existing path or has a bounded material design question.

2. Establish design facts

  1. Read only the relevant Architecture, accepted Bundle documents, code, tests, configuration, Records, and current Git facts.
  2. If the request contains independently valuable capabilities with separate approval, implementation, validation, or rollback boundaries, explain the decomposition and design one bounded capability at a time.
  3. Do not ask again for facts already established by project evidence or the user. When a material uncertainty remains about value, behavior, interface, data, lifecycle, risk, or acceptance, let the user choose a mode before asking: ordinary mode asks one question at a time and resolves only what is needed for a complete design; $grilling probes each related decision.

Completion: the problem, constraints, observable success criteria, and the bounded design surface are explicit.

3. Compare and approve the design decision

Ordinary mode presents 2–3 approaches with tradeoffs and a recommendation. When the user chooses $grilling, invoke $grilling to resolve the remaining material uncertainties one by one; return to this Skill after shared understanding is reached.

Synthesize a complete proposed design that covers the affected modules, interfaces, data flow, error behavior, test/experiment evidence, migration implications, and deliberate non-goals. Keep unrelated refactoring outside the design.

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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. 5d ago First seen · 110 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A aaf5447bdd72

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brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository Tx1207/hello-scholar (5 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,845 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 2026-08-31.

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