brainstorming

Name: brainstorming
Author: shobcoder

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How to install brainstorming?

shobcoder/shob/brainstorming

$npx -y skills add shobcoder/shob --skill brainstorming

Installs into the current project.

Summary

You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation.

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SKILL.md

1	# Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs
2
3	Help turn ideas into fully formed designs and specs through natural collaborative dialogue.
4
5	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.
6
7	Do NOT invoke any implementation skill, write any code, scaffold any project, or take any implementation action until you have presented a design and the user has approved it. This applies to EVERY project regardless of perceived simplicity.
8
9	## Anti-Pattern: "This Is Too Simple To Need A Design"
10
11	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.
12
13	## Checklist
14
15	You MUST create a task for each of these items and complete them in order:
16
17	1. Explore project context — check files, docs, recent commits
18	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.
19	3. Ask clarifying questions — one at a time, understand purpose/constraints/success criteria
20	4. Propose 2-3 approaches — with trade-offs and your recommendation
21	5. Present design — in sections scaled to their complexity, get user approval after each section
22	6. Write design doc — save to `docs/superpowers/specs/YYYY-MM-DD--design.md` and commit
23	7. Spec review loop — dispatch spec-document-reviewer subagent with precisely crafted review context (never your session history); fix issues and re-dispatch until approved (max 3 iterations, then surface to human)
24	8. User reviews written spec — ask user to review the spec file before proceeding
25	9. Transition to implementation — invoke writing-plans skill to create implementation plan
26
27	## Process Flow
28
29	```
30	digraph brainstorming {
31	"Explore project context" [shape=box];
32	"Visual questions ahead?" [shape=diamond];
33	"Offer Visual Companion\n(own message, no other content)" [shape=box];
34	"Ask clarifying questions" [shape=box];
35	"Propose 2-3 approaches" [shape=box];
36	"Present design sections" [shape=box];
37	"User approves design?" [shape=diamond];
38	"Write design doc" [shape=box];
39	"Spec review loop" [shape=box];
40	"Spec review passed?" [shape=diamond];
41	"User reviews spec?" [shape=diamond];
42	"Invoke writing-plans skill" [shape=doublecircle];
43	"Explore project context" -> "Visual questions ahead?";
44	"Visual questions ahead?" -> "Offer Visual Companion\n(own message, no other content)" [label="yes"];
45	"Visual questions ahead?" -> "Ask clarifying questions" [label="no"];
46	"Offer Visual Companion\n(own message, no other content)" -> "Ask clarifying questions";
47	"Ask clarifying questions" -> "Propose 2-3 approaches";
48	"Propose 2-3 approaches" -> "Present design sections";
49	"Present design sections" -> "User approves design?";
50	"User approves design?" -> "Present design sections" [label="no, revise"];
51	"User approves design?" -> "Write design doc" [label="yes"];
52	"Write design doc" -> "Spec review loop";
53	"Spec review loop" -> "Spec review passed?";
54	"Spec review passed?" -> "Spec review loop" [label="issues found,\nfix and re-dispatch"];
55	"Spec review passed?" -> "User reviews spec?" [label="approved"];
56	"User reviews spec?" -> "Write design doc" [label="changes requested"];
57	"User reviews spec?" -> "Invoke writing-plans skill" [label="approved"];
58	}
59	```
60
61	The terminal state is invoking writing-plans. Do NOT invoke frontend-design, mcp-builder, or any other implementation skill. The ONLY skill you invoke after brainstorming is writing-plans.
62
63	## The Process
64
65	Understanding the idea:
66
67	- Check out the current project state first (files, docs, recent commits)
68	- Before asking detailed questions, assess scope: if the request describes multiple independent subsystems (e.g., "build a platform with chat, file storage, billing, and analytics"), flag this immediately. Don't spend questions refining details of a project that needs to be decomposed first.
69	- If the project is too large for a single spec, help the user decompose into sub-projects: what are the independent pieces, how do they relate, what order should they be built? Then brainstorm the first sub-project through the normal design flow. Each sub-project gets its own spec → plan → implementation cycle.
70	- For appropriately-scoped projects, ask questions one at a time to refine the idea
71	- Prefer multiple choice questions when possible, but open-ended is fine too
72	- Only one question per message - if a topic needs more exploration, break it into multiple que

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How to install brainstorming?

shobcoder/shob/brainstorming

$npx -y skills add shobcoder/shob --skill brainstorming

Installs into the current project.

Summary

You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation.

Files · 1

View on GitHub

SKILL.md

1	# Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs
2
3	Help turn ideas into fully formed designs and specs through natural collaborative dialogue.
4
5	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.
6
7	Do NOT invoke any implementation skill, write any code, scaffold any project, or take any implementation action until you have presented a design and the user has approved it. This applies to EVERY project regardless of perceived simplicity.
8
9	## Anti-Pattern: "This Is Too Simple To Need A Design"
10
11	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.
12
13	## Checklist
14
15	You MUST create a task for each of these items and complete them in order:
16
17	1. Explore project context — check files, docs, recent commits
18	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.
19	3. Ask clarifying questions — one at a time, understand purpose/constraints/success criteria
20	4. Propose 2-3 approaches — with trade-offs and your recommendation
21	5. Present design — in sections scaled to their complexity, get user approval after each section
22	6. Write design doc — save to `docs/superpowers/specs/YYYY-MM-DD--design.md` and commit
23	7. Spec review loop — dispatch spec-document-reviewer subagent with precisely crafted review context (never your session history); fix issues and re-dispatch until approved (max 3 iterations, then surface to human)
24	8. User reviews written spec — ask user to review the spec file before proceeding
25	9. Transition to implementation — invoke writing-plans skill to create implementation plan
26
27	## Process Flow
28
29	```
30	digraph brainstorming {
31	"Explore project context" [shape=box];
32	"Visual questions ahead?" [shape=diamond];
33	"Offer Visual Companion\n(own message, no other content)" [shape=box];
34	"Ask clarifying questions" [shape=box];
35	"Propose 2-3 approaches" [shape=box];
36	"Present design sections" [shape=box];
37	"User approves design?" [shape=diamond];
38	"Write design doc" [shape=box];
39	"Spec review loop" [shape=box];
40	"Spec review passed?" [shape=diamond];
41	"User reviews spec?" [shape=diamond];
42	"Invoke writing-plans skill" [shape=doublecircle];
43	"Explore project context" -> "Visual questions ahead?";
44	"Visual questions ahead?" -> "Offer Visual Companion\n(own message, no other content)" [label="yes"];
45	"Visual questions ahead?" -> "Ask clarifying questions" [label="no"];
46	"Offer Visual Companion\n(own message, no other content)" -> "Ask clarifying questions";
47	"Ask clarifying questions" -> "Propose 2-3 approaches";
48	"Propose 2-3 approaches" -> "Present design sections";
49	"Present design sections" -> "User approves design?";
50	"User approves design?" -> "Present design sections" [label="no, revise"];
51	"User approves design?" -> "Write design doc" [label="yes"];
52	"Write design doc" -> "Spec review loop";
53	"Spec review loop" -> "Spec review passed?";
54	"Spec review passed?" -> "Spec review loop" [label="issues found,\nfix and re-dispatch"];
55	"Spec review passed?" -> "User reviews spec?" [label="approved"];
56	"User reviews spec?" -> "Write design doc" [label="changes requested"];
57	"User reviews spec?" -> "Invoke writing-plans skill" [label="approved"];
58	}
59	```
60
61	The terminal state is invoking writing-plans. Do NOT invoke frontend-design, mcp-builder, or any other implementation skill. The ONLY skill you invoke after brainstorming is writing-plans.
62
63	## The Process
64
65	Understanding the idea:
66
67	- Check out the current project state first (files, docs, recent commits)
68	- Before asking detailed questions, assess scope: if the request describes multiple independent subsystems (e.g., "build a platform with chat, file storage, billing, and analytics"), flag this immediately. Don't spend questions refining details of a project that needs to be decomposed first.
69	- If the project is too large for a single spec, help the user decompose into sub-projects: what are the independent pieces, how do they relate, what order should they be built? Then brainstorm the first sub-project through the normal design flow. Each sub-project gets its own spec → plan → implementation cycle.
70	- For appropriately-scoped projects, ask questions one at a time to refine the idea
71	- Prefer multiple choice questions when possible, but open-ended is fine too
72	- Only one question per message - if a topic needs more exploration, break it into multiple que

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