Egm Brainstorm
Interactive ideation and brainstorming skill for the Elephant & Goldfish Model (EGM).
Install
npx skills add google/elephant-goldfish-model --skill egm-brainstorm -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- google/elephant-goldfish-model8.9k
- Category
- Design
- Updated
- 3d ago
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Interactive ideation and brainstorming skill for the Elephant & Goldfish Model (EGM). Helps turn half-baked concepts into structured hypotheses via clarifying questions, review, and iterative refinement. Produces an RFC summary for human review or more detailed design with /egm-draft.
EGM Brainstorm: Interactive Multi-Lens Ideation & Refinement
When running in Codex or ChatGPT Work, first read Codex integration.
In Claude Code or Cowork, read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/docs/claude.md first.
Overview
This skill acts as the upstream conversational brainstorming engine for the
Elephant-Goldfish Model (EGM). It turns "half-baked" or raw concepts into
hypotheses by combining interactive clarifying questions with an automated
Goldfish review. The outcome is an iteratively refined RFC summary
(concepts_brief.md) that leads directly into /egm-draft or review with
peers.
Delegation
A Goldfish runs in a fresh context with no conversation history. Spawn each
subagent with your harness's subagent tool (Antigravity: invoke_subagent; Claude Code: Agent; Codex: spawn_agent). Each subagent is defined in agents/<file>.md, and its
frontmatter name (for example egm-zoom-out) is the subagent type to request
where your harness registers named subagents. Otherwise spawn a general-purpose
subagent and tell it to read that persona file first. Pass the prompt verbatim
and wait for the report. If your harness cannot nest subagents,
use direct dispatch instead of the synthesizer. See docs/harnesses.md.
If your harness has no subagent tool, stop and tell the user: a review in the same context is not a Goldfish review.
