brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from xintaofei/codeg. It costs 37 tokens per session (3,404 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of brainstorming, Apache-2.0.

A discussion process for turning a software idea or requested change into a clear design before implementation begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning a feature, component, or behavior change, including deciding whether a quick feasibility check or a fuller design is needed.
Why use it?
It helps uncover missing requirements and agree on the intended behavior before code is written.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when planning a feature, component, or behavior change, including deciding whether a quick feasibility check or a fuller design is needed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xintaofei/codeg/brainstorming
About the project

Codeg is a collaborative workspace that brings multiple AI coding agents and their sessions into one searchable application. Developers use it to coordinate agents, delegate work, and review unattended coding tasks across desktop, server, Docker, and mobile clients. The catalogue entries are skills and instructions for workflows within Codeg.

xintaofei/codeg · 3,887 stars · on GitHub · docs.codeg.app

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 xintaofei/codeg --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xintaofei/codeg

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/xintaofei/codeg/brainstorming/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/xintaofei/codeg/brainstorming)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for brainstorming

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/xintaofei/codeg/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/xintaofei/codeg/brainstorming.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,404 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00037 $0.03404
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.01362
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00681
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00340

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 74edf03ea6d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo ago.

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

This is a copy

100% identical to brainstorming — 365 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

src-tauri/experts/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 251 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 251 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 classifying how much process the request needs, then work through your path: understand the context, refine the idea, present a design, and get your human partner's approval.

Three Paths

Before your first question, classify the request and say the classification out loud — "this looks bounded, so I'll present a short design here rather than write a spec" — so your human partner can override it:

  • Spike — a feasibility question ("can we...", "is it possible...", "quick and dirty is fine") whose output is an answer, not code you keep. Present the question and what you'll try in 2-3 sentences, get a nod, then find out as cheaply as correctness allows. No design doc, no spec file. Report findings as a recommendation; anything you built stays labeled throwaway.
  • Bounded — a well-scoped change to code that already exists in this repo: a new flag, a small endpoint, a one-file fix. Understanding the kind of app is not enough — bounded means the flow you are changing is already here to read. If there is no existing flow to change, the task is not bounded. Ask the clarifying questions that matter, present a short design IN CHAT (a few sentences to a few short paragraphs), and STOP. Implementation starts only after your human partner says yes to that design — a bounded task's approval is as hard a gate as an architectural one. No spec file, no implementation plan document.
  • Architectural — new projects, new subsystems, changes that restructure how components fit together or alter interfaces others depend on. Follow the full process: questions, approaches, sectioned design, written spec, then the writing-plans skill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 251 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. 1mo ago First seen · 251 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 74edf03ea6d2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository xintaofei/codeg (3,887 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 3,404 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to brainstorming, differing in 365 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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