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Best brainstorming skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guides a conversation that takes a vague idea through divergent and convergent thinking and ends in a markdown one-pager covering scope and assumptions. | addyosmani/ | 102k | 6 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 2 | Reach into past AI conversation history through the trellis mem CLI. | mindfold-ai/ | 15k | 4 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | 8 days ago |
| 3 | You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. | xpinjection/ | 112 | 54 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 4 | Multi-LLM collaborative brainstorming and planning. An agent skill from gcpdev/llm-council-skill. | gcpdev/ | 461 | 1 repo | ~1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 9 mo ago |
| 5 | Build AI-powered software with TypeSafe: small units of AI intelligence you can use like programming primitives. | OpenAgentsInc/ | 455 | 9 repos | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 6 | Create, improve, or evaluate an existing skill from workflows, prompts, SOPs, scripts. | yaojingang/ | 2.7k | — | ~768 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 7 | Guides collaborative requirements discovery before implementation. | anjiemo/ | 178 | 7 repos | ~4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 26 days ago |
| 8 | Creative research ideation and exploration. An agent skill from spacering-net/codeg. | spacering-net/ | 3.8k | 14 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 9 | Initializes an AI development session by reading workflow guides, developer identity, git status, active tasks, and project guidelines from .trellis/. | ROYIANS/ | 135 | 6 repos | ~646 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 10 | Turns a rough idea into an approved design before any code is written, sorting the request into spike, bounded or architectural and enforcing an approval gate. | jnMetaCode/ | 8.3k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 11 | Divergent conversation before any artifact exists — open questions one at a time, alternatives including building nothing, converging on a routing decision and a handoff brief for the next skill. | go-musicfox/ | 2.6k | 1 repo | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 12 | 12.Idea Wizard Generate and operationalize improvement ideas for projects. An agent skill from DavidWells/markdown-magic. | DavidWells/ | 871 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 mo ago |
| 13 | 13.Adhd Parallel divergent ideation for coding agents. An agent skill from UditAkhourii/adhd. | UditAkhourii/ | 4.4k | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 14 | Guide developers through creating and updating ChatGPT plugins. | alpic-ai/ | 2.1k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 15 | AI creative director with recursive self-assessment. An agent skill from smixs/creative-director-skill. | smixs/ | 246 | — | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-4.0 | 2 mo ago |
| 16 | Generate and refine AIGC image prompts by combining rare, prompt-ready visual sub-style tags from a bundled 620-entry style library. | vibeshotclub/ | 873 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 26 days ago |
| 17 | Draws a 12 Houses tarot spread to break ties when a request is vague or casually delegated, then reads the cards to pick the next step. | trailofbits/ | 7.4k | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | 5 days ago |
| 18 | Refine an already working product frontend in a dedicated finishing pass, preserving its identity while improving hierarchy, components, copy and responsive behavior. | MaxMiksa/ | 3.1k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 19 | 19.Drunk Claude Unleash Drunk Claude — the unfiltered, slightly tipsy genius who delivers absurdly wild ideas that weirdly, inexplicably work. | KorroAi/ | 198 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 20 | Daily paper/repo digest where YOU are the reader. An agent skill from AI45Lab/iDeer. | AI45Lab/ | 416 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | AGPL-3.0 | 2 mo ago |
| 21 | Guides pre-writing planning for academic papers with 4 structured steps: story design (task-challenge-insight-contribution-advantage), experiment planning (comparisons + ablations), figure design… | EvoScientist/ | 474 | 3 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 7 days ago |
| 22 | Turns a vague or ambitious feature idea into a requirements-only plan through dialogue with you, sized to the work, before any code is written. | EveryInc/ | 25k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 23 | Guide developers through creating and updating MCP Apps. An agent skill from alpic-ai/skybridge. | alpic-ai/ | 2.1k | — | ~906 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 24 | Chinese-language persona skill that analyzes your problem with a Mao Zedong-style method: investigate first, locate the main contradiction, then probe with questions. | zhangtianruiwork-droid/ | 436 | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 4 mo ago |
| 25 | 25.Audit Flow Interactive system flow tracing across CODE, API, AUTH, DATA, NETWORK layers with SQLite persistence and Mermaid export. | zebbern/ | 4.6k | — | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 26 | 26.Brainstorm Explore WHAT to build for The Holy Qur'an app through collaborative dialogue before any planning or code. | mhmzdev/ | 889 | — | ~845 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 27 | 视频文案分析一站式工具。下载在线视频(B站/YouTube/抖音等)、使用FunASR进行高速中文语音转录、 自动校正文稿、并进行三维度综合分析(TextContent/Viral/Brainstorming)。 | ALBEDO-TABAI/ | 209 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 28 | CS 顶会论文写作全流程 Skill(7-Agent Pipeline)。覆盖从选题到投稿的完整管线:Idea 生成、Literature Review、Method 设计、Experiment 方案、Paper Writing、模拟审稿、Rebuttal。 | SGloria/ | 148 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 29 | When you want to pressure-test a potential new business, product, or side project against the serial-founder filter. | coreyhaines31/ | 844 | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 30 | Generate 24 to 40 LinkedIn post ideas in a single table by pairing the user's content pillars with 8 proven content formats. | charlie947/ | 3.8k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 22 days ago |
| 31 | 需求澄清 Skill。当用户只给了模糊描述时自动触发,通过业务提问把一句话翻译成完整需求,交给 Boss 流水线执行. An agent skill from echoVic/boss-skill. | echoVic/ | 563 | 1 repo | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 32 | Find and read papers from the local papers library (repo papers/, mounted at /papers/). | CamusGIT/ | 151 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 33 | Facilitates evidence-aware scientific ideation with independent generation, structured discussion, explicit assumptions, transparent evaluation, adversarial review, and decision logs. | Oleafly/ | 205 | 2 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 34 | Generates structured literature survey reports from collected papers using a multi-stage pipeline: outline generation (query-type adaptive) → draft survey → section-by-section expansion → summary… | EvoScientist/ | 474 | 3 repos | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 7 days ago |
| 35 | 35.Md2html Convert long-form Markdown (plan, spec, system design, RFC, runbook, postmortem, brainstorm, notes) into a single self-contained HTML page with Mermaid diagrams, step timelines, callouts, sidebar TOC. | haidang1810/ | 421 | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 36 | 36.Grill Me Interview the user relentlessly about a plan, design, or topic, checkpointing every answer to a brainstorm file so nothing is lost. | nateherkai/ | 1.6k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 37 | Personalized academic literature digests and ranked research ideas grounded in the researcher's papers and persistent memory. | junshi-research/ | 126 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 21 days ago |
| 38 | 38.Skybridge Guide developers through creating and updating ChatGPT plugins and MCP Apps. | alpic-ai/ | 2.1k | — | ~923 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 39 | A skill your agent uses when the user asks for discovery-scale research that informs a decision: brainstorming a project or feature, choosing a technology, or requests like "research X", "what's the… | DanMcInerney/ | 626 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 24 days ago |
| 40 | This skill should be used when scientists need help with research problem selection, project ideation, troubleshooting stuck projects, or strategic scientific decisions. | aws-samples/ | 274 | 4 repos | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 5 days ago |
| 41 | 41.Call Voice calls with Claude about your coding projects via Vapi. | abracadabra50/ | 172 | — | ~759 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 42 | AI operational modes (brainstorm, implement, debug, review, teach, ship, orchestrate). | xenitV1/ | 130 | 8 repos | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 8 mo ago |
| 43 | Runs a 100-question self-interrogation of a design, plan, strategy or idea, each question building on the last, to expose weaknesses before you commit. | forsonny/ | 103 | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 mo ago |
| 44 | Apply cognitive constraints that reshape thinking. An agent skill from NeoVertex1/context-field. | NeoVertex1/ | 147 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 8 mo ago |
| 45 | Mandatory pre-code gate and definition-of-done for ANY Odoo change (add field, override method, inherit view/xpath, OWL/JS patch, wizard, cron, controller, report, security, migration, bug fix… | unclecatvn/ | 143 | — | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 13 days ago |
| 46 | This skill should be used when the user asks to "brainstorm research ideas", "use 5W1H framework", "identify research gaps", "conduct gap analysis", "start research project", "conduct literature… | Galaxy-Dawn/ | 5.7k | 3 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 14 days ago |
| 47 | Search academic literature and generate research hypotheses. An agent skill from OpenRaiser/NanoResearch. | OpenRaiser/ | 1.3k | 1 repo | ~256 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 48 | Facilitates structured ideation sessions using proven brainstorming techniques (SCAMPER, SWOT, 5 Whys, Mind Mapping, Six Thinking Hats, Reverse Brainstorming, Starbursting, Brainwriting). | aj-geddes/ | 487 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Notes | Unknown | 3 mo ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best brainstorming skill?
Idea Refinement from addyosmani/agent-skills ranks first of the 467 brainstorming skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 102k GitHub stars, 6 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 2k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Trellis Session Insight and Brainstorming.
Which brainstorming skills are official?
5 of the 467 brainstorming skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Let Fate Decide, Scientific Problem Selection, AWS Architecture Diagram, Brainstorming and AI Team Orchestration.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.
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