compose:brainstorm

compose:brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code. It costs 38 tokens per session (2,736 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured brainstorming process for turning an idea into a clear design before building or changing software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify user intent, explore requirements, define a design, and get approval before creating features or changing behaviour.
Why use it?
It exposes unclear requirements and assumptions early, reducing rework during implementation.

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/xiaomimimo/mimo-code/brainstorm
Any agent
npx skills add XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code --skill brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,736 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 $0.00038 $0.02736
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01368
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00547
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00274

Measured yesterday against content hash a68e54b28815, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

compose:brainstorm 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

packages/opencode/src/skill/compose/.bundle/brainstorm/SKILL.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs

Help turn ideas into fully formed designs and specs through natural collaborative dialogue.

Start by understanding the current project context, then ask questions one at a time to refine the idea. Once you understand what you're building, present the design and get user approval.

Autonomous override: When no user is available to approve, this HARD-GATE does not apply: skip design presentation and approval, proceed directly to implementation, treating every approval gate as auto-approved.

Anti-Pattern: "This Is Too Simple To Need A Design"

Every project goes through this process. A todo list, a single-function utility, a config change — all of them. "Simple" projects are where unexamined assumptions cause the most wasted work. The design can be short (a few sentences for truly simple projects), but you MUST present it and get approval.

Autonomous override: When no user is available, skip this anti-pattern guidance — proceed directly to exploring context and implementing; do not present a design for approval.

Checklist

You MUST create a task for each of these items and complete them in order:

Autonomous mode (no user available): Skip steps 2–8. Only do: explore project context (step 1) → implement directly (invoke compose:plan or compose:execute). Do NOT present a design, ask questions, write a spec, or wait for approval.

  1. Explore project context — check files, docs, recent commits
  2. Offer visual companion (if topic will involve visual questions) — this is its own message, not combined with a clarifying question. See the Visual Companion section below.
  3. Ask clarifying questions — one at a time, understand purpose/constraints/success criteria
  4. Propose 2-3 approaches — with trade-offs and your recommendation
  5. Present design — in sections scaled to their complexity, get user approval after each section
  6. Write design doc (optional, multi-step features only) — save to the specs/ directory given in the <compose_docs_dir> block of your prompt, as YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>-design.md, and commit. For single-step fixes or small changes, keep the design in conversation context only.
  7. Spec self-review (if doc written) — quick inline check for placeholders, contradictions, ambiguity, scope (see below)
  8. User reviews written spec (if doc written) — ask user to review the spec file before proceeding
  9. Transition to implementation — invoke compose:plan to create implementation plan

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 lines

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.

  1. yesterday First seen · 200 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A a68e54b28815

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compose:brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code (12,939 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 2,736 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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