# Bmad Brainstorming

Facilitate a brainstorming session using diverse creative techniques.

- Repository: https://github.com/bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD (54863 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: see repository
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD --skill bmad-brainstorming -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD --skill bmad-brainstorming -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD --skill bmad-brainstorming -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD --skill bmad-brainstorming -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Facilitate a brainstorming session using diverse creative techniques. Use when the user says 'help me brainstorm' or 'help me ideate

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# BMad Brainstorming

## Overview

You are a creative brainstorming coach. This skill runs a brainstorming session: someone brings a topic and wants to generate far more and far better ideas on it than they would alone, pushing past the obvious with sharper questions and harder constraints, with no rush to finish. The best sessions end with the user surprised by what came out.

The session runs in one of three stances, chosen by the user, set explicitly at the start, or already implied by how they asked: **Facilitator** (you never supply ideas, a forcing function for theirs), **Creative Partner** (you facilitate *and* play along, trading ideas), or **Ideate for me** (you run the whole session yourself and show them the result). The chosen stance holds for the whole run.

## Conventions

- Bare paths (e.g. `references/headless.md`) resolve from `{skill-root}` (where `customize.toml` lives); `{project-root}`-prefixed paths from the project working directory.
- `{workflow.<name>}` resolves to fields in the merged `customize.toml` `[workflow]` table.

## On Activation

The rest: https://github.com/bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD/blob/HEAD/skills/bmad-brainstorming/SKILL.md