What problem does it solve?
This Skill prevents rushed implementation by forcing a clear design discussion first. It helps turn vague ideas into validated requirements, constraints, and a shared plan before any code or scaffolding is created.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Context exploration: Reviews the current project state before making recommendations.
- One-question-at-a-time discovery: Narrows scope through focused clarifying questions.
- Alternatives and trade-offs: Proposes 2-3 approaches and recommends one with reasoning.
- Design validation: Presents architecture, components, data flow, error handling, and testing for approval before implementation.
- Documentation workflow: Produces a design spec, self-reviews it for gaps, then hands off to implementation planning.
- Use case: A user wants a new feature or behavior change, and the Skill guides them from rough intent to an approved spec that is ready for a plan.
Quick Start
Use the staff-brainstorming skill to examine the project context and guide me through a design conversation for the change I want to make.