Brainstorming
xpinjection/test-driven-spring-boot
You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior.
Run a real brainstorm — divergent generation without judgment, then convergent selection with explicit criteria — instead of listing ten obvious ideas and calling it creativity.
Install Brainstorming
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill brainstorming -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills brainstorming --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/brainstorming .claude/skills/brainstorming && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "brainstorming" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/brainstorming into .claude/skills/brainstorming/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "brainstorming", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/brainstormingType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill brainstorming -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills brainstorming --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/brainstorming .agents/skills/brainstorming && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "brainstorming" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/brainstorming into .agents/skills/brainstorming/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "brainstorming", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill brainstorming -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills brainstorming --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/brainstorming .cursor/skills/brainstorming && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "brainstorming" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/brainstorming into .cursor/skills/brainstorming/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "brainstorming", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git --path skills/brainstorming--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill brainstorming -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills brainstorming --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/brainstorming .gemini/skills/brainstorming && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "brainstorming" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/brainstorming into .gemini/skills/brainstorming/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "brainstorming", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills brainstormingInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill brainstorming -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/brainstorming .github/skills/brainstorming && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "brainstorming" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/brainstorming into .github/skills/brainstorming/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "brainstorming", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill brainstorming -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills brainstorming --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/brainstorming .opencode/skills/brainstorming && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "brainstorming" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/brainstorming into .opencode/skills/brainstorming/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "brainstorming", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
brainstorming- GitHub stars
- 1.4k
- Token cost
- ~1.2k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 575 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 1,348
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Run a real brainstorm — divergent generation without judgment, then convergent selection with explicit criteria — instead of listing ten obvious ideas and calling it creativity.
- Works in 4 steps: Quota past the obvious. The first 8-10… → Rotate strategies, don't rephrase.… → Keep the weird tail. 20% of the set… → …
- Asked to brainstorm
- SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Divergent Phase (no judgment… and Convergent Phase (judgment,…, plus 4 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Brainstorming is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Run a real brainstorm — divergent generation without judgment, then convergent selection with explicit criteria — instead of listing ten obvious ideas and calling it creativity. Use when asked to brainstorm, generate ideas or options, explore a solution space, or name something. Produces a genuinely wide option set (including the weird tail), then a shortlist selected against named criteria with the rejects preserved.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Agent Workflows, covering Brainstorming. The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Asked to brainstorm
- Explore a solution space
Example prompts
- “/brainstorming”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Quota past the obvious. The first 8-10 ideas are what anyone would say — produce them fast to exhaust them, then keep going; ideas 15-30…
- Rotate strategies, don't rephrase. Generate down distinct axes, a few ideas per axis
- Keep the weird tail. 20% of the set should make the requester slightly uncomfortable. A brainstorm with no bad ideas didn't explore the…
- No evaluative language in this phase. Not even "(probably impractical)". Judgment leaks kill volume.
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Brainstorming loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 109 tokens; SKILL.md has 575 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 575 words, ~1,164 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- brainstorming
- description
- Run a real brainstorm — divergent generation without judgment, then convergent selection with explicit criteria — instead of listing ten obvious ideas and calling it creativity. Use when asked to brainstorm, generate ideas or options, explore a solution space, or name something. Produces a genuinely wide option set (including the weird tail), then a shortlist selected against named criteria with the rejects preserved.
Brainstorming Skill
Asked to brainstorm, a model produces ten reasonable ideas that any competent person would list — which is retrieval, not ideation. Real brainstorming has two phases with a wall between them: diverge (volume, no judgment, deliberately weird) then converge (explicit criteria, honest scoring). This skill enforces the wall.
What This Skill Produces
- A divergent set: 20-40 ideas spanning distinct strategies, not ten variants of one idea
- A convergent shortlist: 3-5 selected against criteria named before scoring
- The reject ledger: what was set aside and why — half the value, always preserved
Required Inputs
Ask for (if not already provided):
- The problem or prompt, and what an idea must accomplish to count
- Constraints that are real (budget/tech/brand) vs assumed — challenge one assumed constraint deliberately
- What's been tried or rejected already (avoids retreading; also reveals the requester's hidden criteria)
Divergent Phase (no judgment permitted)
- Quota past the obvious. The first 8-10 ideas are what anyone would say — produce them fast to exhaust them, then keep going; ideas 15-30 are where non-obvious lives.
- Rotate strategies, don't rephrase. Generate down distinct axes, a few ideas per axis:
- Inversion — what would make the problem worse? Reverse each answer
- Extremes — the $0 version; the $10M version; the version shipping tomorrow
- Transplant — how does a hospital / game studio / street market solve the equivalent?
- Constraint removal — if [assumed constraint] vanished, what becomes possible?
- Actor shift — the user solves it themselves / the community solves it / it never occurs at all (prevention)
- Combination — force-merge two earlier ideas
- Keep the weird tail. 20% of the set should make the requester slightly uncomfortable. A brainstorm with no bad ideas didn't explore the edges — the weird ones exist to stretch the space, and occasionally to win.
- No evaluative language in this phase. Not even "(probably impractical)". Judgment leaks kill volume.
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Convergent Phase (judgment, but named)
- Write criteria before looking back at the list. 3-4 max, from the requester's actual situation (impact, feasibility-this-quarter, differentiation, reversibility…). Criteria chosen after re-reading the list get reverse-engineered to bless a favourite.
- Score coarsely (✅/➖/❌ per criterion). False precision on creative options is theatre.
- Shortlist 3-5 with one line each on why. Include one wildcard — highest-variance, criteria-marginal — labelled as such.
- Preserve the rejects with reasons. "Rejected: needs a partnership we don't have (yet)" is a future idea with a trigger condition; a deleted reject is a repeated brainstorm next quarter.
Output Format
Brainstorm: [prompt]
Divergent set ([n] ideas, by strategy): [grouped list — no judgments attached]
Criteria (named before selection): 1) … 2) … 3) …
| Shortlisted | [C1] | [C2] | [C3] | Why it made it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (3-5 rows, incl. 🃏 one wildcard) |
Reject ledger: [idea → the criterion it failed → what would revive it]
Quality Checks
- ≥20 ideas spanning ≥5 distinct strategies — not variants of two ideas
- The weird tail exists (ideas that risk sounding silly)
- Zero evaluative language in the divergent set
- Criteria were stated before scoring, and trace to the requester's situation
- Rejects preserved with revival conditions
Anti-Patterns
- Do not judge while generating — one "(unrealistic)" mid-list collapses the whole divergent phase
- Do not produce ten polished-obvious ideas and stop — that's a search result, not a brainstorm
- Do not let the criteria appear after the list has been read — that's rationalising a favourite
- Do not delete the rejects — the ledger is half the artifact
- Do not ship the shortlist without the wildcard — a fully-safe shortlist means the exercise removed everything it was for
Example Trigger Phrases
- "Generate ideas."
- "Explore a solution space."
- "Name something."
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Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/brainstorming of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0
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| Typesafe AIOpenAgentsInc/openagents | 455 | 9 repos | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Yao Meta Skillyaojingang/yao-meta-skill | 2.7k | — | ~768 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Trellis StartROYIANS/foliq-print-template-designer | 135 | 6 repos | ~646 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Brainstorming Before BuildingjnMetaCode/superpowers-zh | 8.3k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Brainstorming
What does Brainstorming do?
Run a real brainstorm — divergent generation without judgment, then convergent selection with explicit criteria — instead of listing ten obvious ideas and calling it creativity. Brainstorming is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Run a real brainstorm — divergent generation without judgment, then convergent selection with explicit criteria — instead of listing ten obvious ideas and calling it creativity.
When should I use Brainstorming?
Brainstorming fits situations like: asked to brainstorm; explore a solution space.
How do I install Brainstorming in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill brainstorming -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/brainstorming in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/brainstorming in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Brainstorming in Codex?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill brainstorming -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/brainstorming in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/brainstorming in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Brainstorming in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill brainstorming -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/brainstorming, .gemini/skills/brainstorming, .github/skills/brainstorming and .opencode/skills/brainstorming in your project.
What does Brainstorming need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Brainstorming is instructions for the agent only.
Does Brainstorming access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Brainstorming safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Brainstorming use?
Brainstorming is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Brainstorming use?
About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Brainstorming?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Brainstorming: Brainstorming (xpinjection/test-driven-spring-boot, 112 stars), Typesafe AI (OpenAgentsInc/openagents, 455 stars), Yao Meta Skill (yaojingang/yao-meta-skill, 2.7k stars) and Trellis Start (ROYIANS/foliq-print-template-designer, 135 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Brainstorming?
mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,433 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.
Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.