What happens after the design is approved?

Once approved, the skill saves a design document to your repository and invokes the 'writing-plans' skill to create a detailed implementation roadmap.

Why can't I skip the design phase for simple tasks?

The skill applies the same rigor to every project because unexamined assumptions in simple tasks often lead to the most wasted work and technical debt.

Does this skill write implementation code?

No, this skill is strictly for planning and design. It enforces a 'hard-gate' that prevents code implementation until a design document is finalized, approved, and committed.

How does it help with architectural decisions?

It specifically proposes 2-3 different technical approaches for your task, highlighting the trade-offs and providing a recommendation based on your project context.

Brainstorming & Design Planner

Name: Brainstorming & Design Planner
Author: yang0

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Productivity & Workflow

Facilitates a collaborative dialogue to refine ideas into structured designs and technical specifications before writing code.

This skill acts as a mandatory pre-implementation phase for any development task, ensuring that user intent, project requirements, and technical constraints are fully explored before a single line of code is written. By enforcing a hard-gate on implementation, it prevents wasted effort through a systematic process of context gathering, one-at-a-time questioning, and comparative architectural analysis. It culminates in a formal design document and a seamless hand-off to implementation planning, making it an essential tool for maintaining high code quality and architectural integrity across projects of any scale.

Key Features

01Mandatory pre-implementation hard-gate to ensure design approval before coding

02Multi-approach analysis comparing 2-3 technical strategies with trade-offs and recommendations

03Incremental design validation to confirm architecture and data flow section-by-section

04Step-by-step interactive questioning to resolve project ambiguities and constraints

05Automated design documentation generation and Git commitment for project history

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Use Cases

01Standardizing the design documentation process and ensuring team alignment before development begins

02Defining the technical architecture and component structure for a new software feature

03Brainstorming potential solutions and evaluating trade-offs for complex system modifications

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add yang0/superpower brainstorming

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT