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brainstorm-with-file

Runs interactive multi-perspective brainstorming sessions with documented thought evolution in markdown files.

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Search Tags:#decision tracking#multi-perspective analysis#CODEX# ideation#interactive workflow#idea synthesis#Brainstorming
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow --skill brainstorm-with-file
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent▼
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Skill: brainstorm-with-file
Source: https://github.com/catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow/tree/main/.codex/skills/brainstorm-with-file
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow --skill brainstorm-with-file

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve?

Unstructured brainstorming loses ideas, decisions, and reasoning over time. This Skill guides an idea from seed to synthesis through a documented workflow that records every round, perspective, and decision in a persistent brainstorm.md file.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Documented Thought Evolution: Maintains a brainstorm.md timeline capturing ideas, user feedback, challenged assumptions, and decision records across up to 6 refinement rounds.
  • Multi-Perspective Analysis: Runs creative, pragmatic, and systematic perspectives serially and inline, with optional professional roles like system-architect or product-manager.
  • Codebase and Web Context: Detects the project type, searches relevant code patterns, and optionally pulls external research via web search to ground ideas.
  • Structured Handoff: Ends with a terminal gate offering task execution handoff, issue creation, or clean completion, plus a synthesis.json of ranked ideas.
  • Use Case: A developer wants to explore a new caching strategy. The Skill creates a session folder, analyzes the codebase, generates ideas from three perspectives, refines them through interactive rounds, and produces a ranked synthesis with next steps.

Quick Start

Ask the AI to brainstorm a topic such as "How to improve developer onboarding experience" using the brainstorm-with-file workflow with default perspectives.

Frequently Asked Questions about brainstorm-with-file

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

FAQPage Schema
How do I run a structured brainstorming session with an AI coding assistant?▼

Invoke the workflow with a topic argument, for example TOPIC="New caching strategy". The Skill creates a session folder, runs multi-perspective analysis inline, and iterates with you through refinement rounds before producing a final synthesis.

What perspectives does this brainstorming workflow use?▼

It defaults to creative, pragmatic, and systematic perspectives run serially and inline. You can override them with --perspectives or select professional roles like system-architect, product-manager, or ux-expert based on topic keywords.

Can I continue a previous brainstorming session?▼

Yes. Pass --continue or reuse the same topic; the Skill auto-detects an existing session folder with brainstorm.md and resumes from the last recorded round with all prior context intact.

Does the brainstorming workflow use external research?▼

Yes, optionally. It can run web searches for industry patterns, best practices, and competitive solutions, storing findings in research.json and merging them into the perspective synthesis.

What output files does a brainstorming session produce?▼

It produces brainstorm.md with the full thought evolution timeline, perspectives.json with aggregated findings, per-idea deep-dive files in an ideas folder, and a final synthesis.json with ranked ideas and recommendations.

When should I not use this brainstorming workflow?▼

Avoid it for quick single-answer questions or tasks needing parallel multi-agent delegation, since it executes serially and inline by design. It is best suited for open-ended exploration that benefits from documented iteration.

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