brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code from zpower426/datapowers. It costs 35 tokens per session (2,147 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A planning guide for analysis, machine-learning, and data projects. It helps clarify the business question, available data, and proposed approach before coding or modeling.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shape an analysis project, inspect the data situation, ask focused questions, and write testable business hypotheses before exploring or modeling data.
Why use it?
It reduces wasted work caused by unclear goals, hidden assumptions, or unsuitable data. Even small analyses get a defined plan and user approval.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the datapowers plugin — 20 skills, 3 commands, 3 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to shape an analysis project, inspect the data situation, ask focused questions, and write testable business hypotheses before exploring or modeling data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zpower426/datapowers/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 zpower426/datapowers --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zpower426/datapowers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install datapowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 3 commands, 3 agents, 1 hook.

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
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,147 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00035 $0.02147
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01073
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00429
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00215

Measured 7d ago against content hash abb5d97aedd4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

brainstorming scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 7d 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.

Unrestricted tool accessmediumExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

Do NOT run any code, load any data, train any model, or begin any implementation until you have presented an analytical design and the user has approved it. This applies to every analysis regardless of perceived simplici
skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 235 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 235 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming Analysis Projects

Help turn analytical goals into fully formed designs and plans through structured collaborative dialogue.

Start by understanding the business context and data landscape, then ask questions one at a time to refine the approach. Once you understand the problem, present the analytical design and get user approval.

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

Every analysis goes through this process. A quick summary, a single model, a column exploration — all of them. "Simple" analyses are where unexamined assumptions create the most wasted work. The design can be short for truly simple tasks, but you MUST present it and get approval.

Checklist

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

  1. Understand business context — what decision does this analysis support? What's the success criteria?
  2. Explore data landscape — what data is available? What's the shape, source, time range?
  3. Ask clarifying questions — one at a time: target variable, known constraints, prior attempts, stakeholder requirements
  4. State 3+ business hypotheses — articulate specific, falsifiable hypotheses BEFORE any EDA (e.g., "we expect churn to correlate with payment failure rate")
  5. Baseline thinking first — ask "what would logistic regression achieve?" before proposing complex models
  6. Identify analytical risks — data quality concerns, potential leakage, class imbalance, temporal issues
  7. Propose 2-3 approaches — with trade-offs (complexity vs interpretability, speed vs accuracy)
  8. Define validation integrity — specify the exact train/val/test split strategy and the moment it must be applied (before any transformation)
  9. Present analytical design — in sections, get user approval after each section
  10. Write design doc — save to docs/datapowers/specs/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>-design.md and commit
  11. Self-review design — check for ambiguity, missing data requirements, undefined metrics
  12. User reviews written design — ask user to confirm the spec before proceeding
  13. Transition to planning — invoke datapowers:writing-analysis-plans skill

Read the full file on GitHub · 235 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 7d ago First seen · 235 lines · 35 tokens per session scan B abb5d97aedd4

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brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository zpower426/datapowers (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 2,147 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (unrestricted tool access). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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