How does the research protocol work?

The skill uses the Explore agent to find patterns in your current codebase and can use web search to find external library patterns, ensuring the proposed design is grounded in best practices.

What are 'immutable requirements' in an Epic?

These are core success criteria defined at the start that act as a contract for the feature. They ensure the final output meets the original design goals without being watered down.

What is the Socratic questioning phase?

It is an iterative process where Claude asks targeted questions to uncover hidden requirements, security needs, and constraints before any code is proposed.

Why does this skill only create one subtask at a time?

To avoid brittle task trees that break when assumptions change. Each new task is created based on the learnings and reality of the previously completed task.

Brainstorming & Design Architecture

Name: Brainstorming & Design Architecture
Author: Veraticus

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Productivity & Workflow

Refines rough ideas into validated designs and structured development plans through Socratic questioning and iterative planning.

The Brainstorming skill provides a structured framework for turning ambiguous ideas into concrete, actionable development plans within Claude Code. By employing Socratic questioning and deep codebase research, it ensures that requirements are fully understood and architectural patterns are respected before any code is written. It creates 'Epic' tasks with immutable success criteria and an iterative subtask system that adapts to real-world findings, preventing the pitfalls of brittle upfront planning and ensuring high-quality implementation outcomes.

Key Features

01Comparative architectural proposals with trade-off analysis

02Creation of immutable 'Epic' tasks with explicit anti-patterns

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04Automated codebase research to identify existing patterns

05Corner-case refinement checklist for robust task preparation

06Socratic questioning for deep requirement discovery

Use Cases

01Defining the architecture for a complex new feature from a rough concept

02Clarifying ambiguous project requirements through interactive guided dialogue

03Ensuring new implementations remain consistent with existing codebase patterns

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add veraticus/gambit brainstorming

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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