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Brainstorm With File

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catlog22·vlatest·productivity·MIT

Generate creative ideas based on your uploaded files – perfect for sparking innovation and overcoming writer's block!

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Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

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    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add catlog22/claude-code-workflow --skill brainstorm-with-file -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

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catlog22

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Live repository

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This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

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  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

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    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

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    Scanned catlog22/claude-code-workflow at 07491b04ac.

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07491b04ac
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.codex/skills/brainstorm-with-file/SKILL.md
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1 file, 1,021 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill enables an AI agent to facilitate a structured brainstorming process based on a given topic, documented in a brainstorm.md file that tracks the evolution of ideas. It expands initial concepts through questioning, analysis from multiple perspectives (creative, pragmatic, and systematic), external web research, and iterative refinement, ultimately leading to a crystallized idea and next steps. The skill supports both interactive and automated modes for different levels of user involvement.

When to use it

  • Generating new ideas for improving the developer onboarding experience.
  • Exploring potential caching strategies.
  • Brainstorming plugin architecture concepts when you want to quickly generate options without detailed interaction.
  • When facing writer's block or needing a structured approach to problem-solving.
  • To systematically evaluate an idea from multiple angles before committing to a course of action.

Key capabilities

  • Multi-perspective analysis: Considers creative, pragmatic, and systematic viewpoints.
  • External research: Uses web searches (web.run) for inspiration and best practices.
  • Progress tracking: functions.update_plan provides real-time visibility into the brainstorming phase.
  • Diverge-Converge cycles: Generates multiple options then focuses on the most promising paths.
  • Auto Mode: Allows for automated idea generation and exploration by skipping interactive confirmation steps.

Example prompts

  • /codex:brainstorm-with-file TOPIC="How to improve developer onboarding experience"
  • /codex:brainstorm-with-file TOPIC="New caching strategy" --perspectives=creative,pragmatic,systematic
  • /codex:brainstorm-with-file -y TOPIC="Plugin architecture ideas"

Tips & gotchas

  • The skill creates a brainstorm.md file to document the entire thought process. This allows for review and continuation of brainstorming sessions later.
  • Session IDs follow a format like BS-{slug}-{YYYY-MM-DD}.
  • The --max-ideas flag limits the number of ideas tracked; the default is 15.