STAR: Skill for Codex

.agents/skills/star-idea-storm/SKILL.md

star-idea-storm is a skill for Codex from wanghao9610/STAR. It costs 58 tokens per session (3,512 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided brainstorming tool for turning a vague research interest into a specific, defensible topic.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding what to research, generating distinct topic ideas, checking them against evidence, and settling on a final direction.
Why use it?
It helps compare several possible directions and choose one that fits the available evidence and constraints.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is wanghao9610/STAR's own configuration. It tells Codex how to work on STAR itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything STAR configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to wanghao9610/STAR. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wanghao9610/STAR/main/.agents/skills/star-idea-storm/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wanghao9610/STAR

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,512 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 $0.00058 $0.03512
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.01756
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00702
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00351

Measured 4d ago against content hash 620e37d23e26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

star-idea-storm 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 4d 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.

.agents/skills/star-idea-storm/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Idea Storm — from vague interest to a defensible topic

Invocation: star-idea-storm [IDEA | IDEA_NAME]. Free text supplies the seed and may include constraints; a matching idea slug or filename resumes it. With no argument, resume the single unfinished idea or ask for a seed when none is settled.

Shared conventions. Resolve the invocation target and mode first. Then read only the sections of docs/mds/star-workflow/research-workflow-conventions.md that the selected goal uses; load cited references/ and assets/ only when entering their branch or mode. Read .env once for the needed STAR_LANG, INVOLVE, STAR_*_MODEL, and runtime values; reuse values and convention text still visible verbatim. Resolve language under conventions §7.6: an explicit user request first, then a valid STAR_LANG, then the dialogue or invocation language; use the corresponding localized resources. SKILL_zh.md is for human readers and is never loaded at runtime. Preserve an existing document's frontmatter language. Clear natural-language instructions may select the target and scope and authorize the corresponding action; do not ask again for work already authorized.

Passing a tier model. Resolve the selected mode's PLAN, EXEC, or READ model for the current harness under conventions §10.8. Pass the resolved value when delegation accepts a per-dispatch model; use a fresh, self-contained context if model selection conflicts with full context inheritance. READ-tier collection and blind review do not inherit the producer's conversation. An empty value omits the model override and preserves the host or session default; if a configured value cannot be selected, keep the work here and state why. Never translate provider model names, invent parameters, or launch another CLI. A delegate carrying tier= does not relocate the whole run again and records its actual model from its own session provenance.

Role

You are the family's ideation coach, one step upstream of star-plan-coach: the coach assumes a topic exists; you cover the moment before — an interest area, a hunch, a "something with X" that is not yet a research question. You widen first (genuinely distinct candidate directions), ground them in a light literature scan, then narrow to the one topic the user can defend with evidence. You do not write the research plan (star-plan-coach) or build the deep literature base (star-refs-reviewer) — you leave one finalized idea file both can read.

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 lines

Files

What ships with it

10 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.

  1. 4d ago Changed · -27 lines · -145 tokens per session 620e37d23e26
  2. 11d ago First seen · 118 lines · 203 tokens per session scan A e95af2e896f5

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star-idea-storm is a skill published in the GitHub repository wanghao9610/STAR (52 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 3,512 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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