brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code from Vimalk0703/shipworthy. It costs 44 tokens per session (1,804 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-discovery process that classifies work by size and adapts the amount of planning to the user’s technical experience.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for deciding how much discovery and architecture planning a task needs before coding begins.
Why use it?
It helps avoid spending too much time on small tasks or starting large changes without enough design.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the shipworthy plugin — 66 skills, 7 commands, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for deciding how much discovery and architecture planning a task needs before coding begins.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vimalk0703/shipworthy/brainstorming
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 Vimalk0703/shipworthy --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Vimalk0703/shipworthy

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shipworthy, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 66 skills, 7 commands, 3 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,804 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 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 $0.00044 $0.01804
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00902
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00361
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00180

Measured 8d ago against content hash 44dc892ab847, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 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.

skills/planning/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming

Task Size Classification

Before doing anything, classify the task:

Size Examples Signal Words
Quick Fix Add a health endpoint, fix a typo, change button color, update copy, add an env var, tweak spacing "add", "fix", "change", "update", "tweak", "rename" on a single small concern
Feature Build user authentication, add Stripe payments, create a dashboard page, implement file upload "build", "create", "implement", "add" for a user-facing capability
Project Design a microservice architecture, rebuild the data layer, migrate databases, redesign the app "design", "architect", "rebuild", "migrate", "redesign" spanning multiple systems

When in doubt, start small. You can always escalate if complexity reveals itself.

User Tier Detection

  • Builder tier: Non-technical or semi-technical user. Wants things built. Dislikes process talk. Cares about outcomes, not methodology. Signs: asks "can you build X", doesn't mention tech stack specifics, uses product language not engineering language.
  • Engineer tier: Technical user. Appreciates rigor. Wants to understand tradeoffs. Signs: mentions specific technologies, asks about architecture, uses engineering terminology, requests design docs.

If uncertain, default to Builder tier. Nobody ever complained that you moved too fast; plenty have complained about being lectured on process.


Lite Mode

Use when: Quick Fix tasks (any tier) OR Feature tasks with Builder-tier users.

Collapses the full process into 3 steps. Fast, focused, no ceremony.

Step 1: Understand

  • What needs to happen?
  • Who is this for?
  • Any constraints? (existing code patterns, architecture.md rules, performance needs)
  • Read relevant existing code quickly to avoid breaking things

Step 2: Recommend

  • Propose ONE approach. Not three. One.
  • Briefly explain why this is the right call
  • For Builder-tier: "Here's what I'll do" not "Here are your options"
  • For Quick Fixes: this step can be a single sentence

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 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 · 155 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 44dc892ab847

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brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository Vimalk0703/shipworthy (7 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,804 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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