Brainstorm Agent Skill
AI DevKit · Use when the user asks to brainstorm, ideate, generate ideas, expand options, challenge ideas, pressure-test ideas, compare concepts, narrow choices, name something, plan content angles, explore strategy, evaluate product ideas, technical approaches, experiments, or decisions.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/codeaholicguy/ai-devkit --skill brainstormThe instruction itself
3 sections, as written by the authorBrainstorm
Run a compact diverge-to-converge loop.
Workflow
- Frame: restate the goal, constraints, audience, success criteria, and assumptions.
- Diverge: generate distinct options across practical, high-leverage, and unusual angles.
- Challenge: identify weak assumptions, obvious failure modes, tradeoffs, and ideas to reject.
- Compare: group related ideas and evaluate only on relevant criteria such as impact, effort, risk, novelty, confidence, or time-to-test.
- Converge: recommend the strongest 3 options with brief rationale and a concrete next step, experiment, outline, or decision checkpoint.
Formats
Use Quick by default. Use Deep only for ambiguous or high-stakes decisions. Ask at most one clarifying question only if missing context would materially change the brainstorm; otherwise state assumptions and proceed.
- Quick: clusters, challenges, 3 picks.
- Deep: assumptions, clusters, evaluation table, recommendation.
- Naming: tone groups, fit, ambiguity, pronunciation.
- Technical: approaches, tradeoffs, risks, validation.
- Content: angles, hooks, audiences, outlines.
Avoid filler, near-duplicates, generic best practices, and premature recommendations. If asked for more ideas, explore a new axis before listing variants.
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How to use it
Take codeaholicguy/brainstorm from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the
same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.