brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vudovn/ag-kit. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,262 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A questioning and communication guide for clarifying complex, new, or poorly defined coding requests before implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps gather the problem to solve, intended users, and must-have versus optional requirements, then records decisions for later work.
Why use it?
It prevents work from starting with unclear goals, users, or scope, while checking saved project decisions when available.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

AG Kit is a toolkit that gives Google Antigravity coding agents a structured workspace with rules, skills, specialist agents, workflows, persistent memory, orchestration, MCP guidance, and a safety hook. It is for building and operating agent workflows in Antigravity, and its catalogue entries provide parts of that workspace contract.

vudovn/ag-kit · 8,170 stars · on GitHub · ag-kit.unikorn.vn

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/vudovn/ag-kit/brainstorming
Any agent
npx skills add vudovn/ag-kit --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vudovn/ag-kit

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 brainstorming

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vudovn/ag-kit/brainstorming.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/vudovn/ag-kit/brainstorming)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vudovn/ag-kit/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vudovn/ag-kit/brainstorming.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,262 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 $0.00033 $0.01262
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00631
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00126

Measured 5d ago against content hash 2094bb5967e7, 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

7 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming & Communication Protocol

MANDATORY: Use for complex/vague requests, new features, updates.


🛑 SOCRATIC GATE (ENFORCEMENT)

When to Trigger

Pattern Action
"Build/Create/Make [thing]" without details 🛑 ASK 3 questions
Complex feature or architecture 🛑 Clarify before implementing
Update/change request 🛑 Confirm scope
Vague requirements 🛑 Ask purpose, users, constraints

🧠 Memory Check (2026.5.13 — Before Questioning)

Before asking questions, check if past context exists:

0. CHECK MEMORY — Does .agents/memory/MEMORY.md exist?
   → YES: Read index. Apply relevant past decisions silently.
          Skip questions already answered in memory.
   → NO: Proceed with standard Socratic Gate.

🚫 MANDATORY: 3 Questions Before Implementation

  1. STOP - Do NOT start coding
  2. CHECK - Read .agents/memory/ for past context on this topic
  3. ASK - Minimum 3 questions (skip any already answered via memory):
    • 🎯 Purpose: What problem are you solving?
    • 👥 Users: Who will use this?
    • 📦 Scope: Must-have vs nice-to-have?
  4. WAIT - Get response before proceeding
  5. SAVE - After brainstorming, save key decisions: /remember [decision]

🧠 Dynamic Question Generation

⛔ NEVER use static templates. Read dynamic-questioning.md for principles.

Core Principles

Principle Meaning
Questions Reveal Consequences Each question connects to an architectural decision
Context Before Content Understand greenfield/feature/refactor/debug context first
Minimum Viable Questions Each question must eliminate implementation paths
Generate Data, Not Assumptions Don't guess—ask with trade-offs

Question Generation Process

1. Parse request → Extract domain, features, scale indicators
2. Identify decision points → Blocking vs. deferable
3. Generate questions → Priority: P0 (blocking) > P1 (high-leverage) > P2 (nice-to-have)
4. Format with trade-offs → What, Why, Options, Default

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 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 · 179 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 2094bb5967e7

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brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository vudovn/ag-kit (8,170 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,262 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 2026-08-30.

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