brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yuchenbigpen1/normies. It costs 19 tokens per session (1,021 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided conversation for turning a complex idea into a clear design before implementation. It explores the problem and checks whether an existing tool or simpler configuration could solve it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Exploring product or workflow ideas, asking focused follow-up questions, and shaping an implementation-ready design.
Why use it?
It helps uncover missing requirements and important assumptions before you commit to a technical solution.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Exploring product or workflow ideas, asking focused follow-up questions, and shaping an implementation-ready design.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yuchenbigpen1/normies/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 yuchenbigpen1/normies --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yuchenbigpen1/normies

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,021 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 $0.00019 $0.01021
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00511
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00102

Measured 10d ago against content hash 01386a95c801, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 10d 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.

packages/shared/assets/workspace-template/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs

Overview

Help turn ideas into fully formed designs through natural conversation. Your job is to understand the problem deeply before proposing any solution.

Before jumping to design, follow the system prompt's Solution-First Thinking — consider whether an existing tool, automation platform, or simple configuration change solves the problem before proposing custom work.

Understanding the Idea (Depth-First Questioning)

The system prompt covers the basics (one question per message, explore approaches, present design). This skill adds the questioning methodology that makes the difference between a good design and a great one.

How to think about what to ask

After every answer the user gives, pause and consider:

  1. What did that answer reveal that I didn't know before?
  2. What did it imply that I should dig deeper on?
  3. Could I explain their situation to someone else right now — or are there still parts I'd be guessing about?

Follow the thread. If someone says "we cold call leads we buy from a vendor," don't jump to asking about their tech stack. Ask about the leads — where do they come from? How good are they? What happens after the call? Stay on a topic until you actually understand it, then move on.

Push past surface-level answers. If someone says "we want to automate our outreach," that's not enough to design anything. What does outreach look like today? Who does it? What channels? What triggers it? Ask the follow-up that turns a vague statement into something concrete.

Your internal readiness test

You're NOT ready to design until you can clearly describe all of these to yourself:

  • Their current reality — What do they do today, step by step? What tools do they use? What's manual, what's automated? Where does it break down?
  • The desired outcome — What does "working" look like? Not features — results. What changes for them when this is done?
  • The people involved — Who does what? Who provides input, who takes action, who sees the output?
  • The information flow — What data is involved? Where does it come from? Where does it need to go? What format is it in?
  • The rules and logic — What decisions get made along the way? What are the edge cases or exceptions? What does "it depends" depend on?
  • The constraints — Budget, timeline, existing tools that must stay, team capabilities, dealbreakers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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. 10d ago First seen · 84 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 01386a95c801

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brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository yuchenbigpen1/normies (4 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,021 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.