/brainstorm
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
$ npx -y skills add codeaholicguy/ai-devkit --skill brainstorm --agent claude-codeHow it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/brainstorm
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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
SKILL.md
brainstorm.SKILL.mdname: brainstorm
description: 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.
Brainstorm
Run a compact diverge-to-converge loop.
Workflow
1. Frame: restate the goal, constraints, audience, success criteria, and assumptions. 2. Diverge: generate distinct options across practical, high-leverage, and unusual angles. 3. Challenge: identify weak assumptions, obvious failure modes, tradeoffs, and ideas to reject. 4. Compare: group related ideas and evaluate only on relevant criteria such as impact, effort, risk, novelty, confidence, or time-to-test. 5. 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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name: brainstorm description: 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.
Brainstorm
Run a compact diverge-to-converge loop.
Workflow
1. Frame: restate the goal, constraints, audience, success criteria, and assumptions. 2. Diverge: generate distinct options across practical, high-leverage, and unusual angles. 3. Challenge: identify weak assumptions, obvious failure modes, tradeoffs, and ideas to reject. 4. Compare: group related ideas and evaluate only on relevant criteria such as impact, effort, risk, novelty, confidence, or time-to-test. 5. 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.
The control plane for AI coding agents. AI DevKit gives Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, opencode, Pi, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Devin, and other coding agents one local-first operating layer: one config, one console, local memory retrieval, cross-agent
Repo: codeaholicguy/ai-devkit
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