Can I explore different technical approaches?

Yes, the skill is designed to propose 2-3 different approaches with specific trade-offs and recommendations before you settle on a final design.

Does this skill work with existing codebases?

Absolutely. It begins by checking the current project state, including files and recent commits, to ensure any new design is compatible with your existing work.

What happens after the design is finalized?

Once the design is committed, the skill can help you transition to implementation by creating git worktrees and detailed implementation plans.

Where does the skill save the final design documentation?

The skill automatically writes the validated design to a Markdown file in the docs/plans/ directory and commits it to your Git repository.

How does the brainstorming skill simplify the design process?

It uses a structured dialogue that asks only one question at a time and prefers multiple-choice options, preventing information overload during the planning phase.

Brainstorming & Design Planner

Name: Brainstorming & Design Planner
Author: abudhahir

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Collaboration Tools

Transforms raw project ideas into structured technical design specifications through collaborative dialogue and iterative validation.

About

The Brainstorming skill bridges the gap between initial concepts and implementation by guiding users through a structured discovery process. It analyzes your project context, explores multiple architectural approaches with clear trade-offs, and builds detailed design documents one section at a time. By enforcing a one-question-at-a-time interaction and adhering to YAGNI principles, it ensures that your designs are lean, validated, and automatically documented in your repository before a single line of feature code is written.

Key Features

Context-aware analysis of existing project files, docs, and git history
Incremental design validation to ensure alignment on components and data flow
Guided discovery using a 'one question at a time' conversational flow
Comparative architecture reviews with 2-3 alternative approaches and trade-offs
Automated documentation generation and commitment to git repositories
1 GitHub stars

Use Cases

Evaluating different architectural patterns for a new system component
Refining vague feature requests into concrete technical specifications
Documenting complex data flows and error handling strategies before implementation

About

Key Features

Context-aware analysis of existing project files, docs, and git history
Incremental design validation to ensure alignment on components and data flow
Guided discovery using a 'one question at a time' conversational flow
Comparative architecture reviews with 2-3 alternative approaches and trade-offs
Automated documentation generation and commitment to git repositories
1 GitHub stars

Use Cases

Evaluating different architectural patterns for a new system component
Refining vague feature requests into concrete technical specifications
Documenting complex data flows and error handling strategies before implementation