Agent skill · creative production · yonatangross
brainstorm
Design ideation with parallel agents: 10+ ideas, feasibility filter, devil's-advocate scoring, trade-offs. Use when brainstorming or comparing alternatives. Not for building or fixing code (use implement or fix-issue) or scoring a design (use assess).
Why this skill is useful
Adds a structured 7-phase brainstorming process that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
About 10k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 215 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs Host-neutral workflow. Invoke by skill name (brainstorm). Claude Code slash routing, YAML hook loaders, and .claude/chain live in references/claude-code.md. Transform rough ideas into fully-formed designs through intelligent agent selection and structured exploration. Core principle: Analyze the topic, select relevant agents dynamically, explore alternatives in parallel, present design incrementally. Argument Resolution --- STEP -1: MCP Probe + Resume Check Probe MCP servers once at skill start, store capabilities, and resume from any prior crashed session. Each phase emits a JSON handoff file consumed by the next. Full procedure + handoff-file table: Read("references/mcp-probe-resume.md") --- STEP 0: Project Context Discovery Load context first. A fork skill never runs frontmatter hooks (#4683), so run the loader yourself and keep its additionalContext in mind: BEFORE creating tasks or selecting agents, detect the project tier. This becomes the complexity ceiling for all downstream decisions. Auto-Detection (scan codebase) Tier Classification Signal Tier -------- ------ README says "take-home", "assignment", time limit 1. Interview < 10 files, no CI, no Docker 2. Hackathon .github/workflows/, 10-25 deps 3. MVP Module boundaries, Redis, background jobs 4. Growth K8s/Terraform, DDD structure, monorepo 5. Enterprise CONTRIBUTING.md, LICENSE, minimal deps 6. Open Source If confidence is low, ask the user: Pass the detected tier as context to ALL downstream agents and phases. The tier constrains which patterns are appropriate — see scope-appropriate-architecture skill for the full matrix. Override: User can always override the detected tier. Warn them of trade-offs if they choose a higher tier than detected. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills yonatangross/brainstorm