# Brainstorm

Use when creating or developing, before writing code or implementation plans - refines...

- Repository: https://github.com/NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit (1797 stars)
- Category: Design
- License: GPL-3.0
- Last updated: 2026-08-26
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit --skill brainstorm -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit --skill brainstorm -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit --skill brainstorm -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit --skill brainstorm -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit`

## Description

Use when creating or developing, before writing code or implementation plans - refines rough ideas into fully-formed designs through collaborative questioning, alternative exploration, and incremental validation. Don't use during clear 'mechanical' processes

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

# Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs

## Overview

Help turn ideas into fully formed designs and specs through natural collaborative dialogue.

Start by understanding the current project context, then ask questions one at a time to refine the idea. Once you understand what you're building, present the design in small sections (200-300 words), checking after each section whether it looks right so far.

## The Process

**Understanding the idea:**

- Check out the current project state first (files, docs, recent commits)
- Ask questions one at a time to refine the idea
- Prefer multiple choice questions when possible, but open-ended is fine too
- Only one question per message - if a topic needs more exploration, break it into multiple questions
- Focus on understanding: purpose, constraints, success criteria

**Exploring approaches:**

- Generate 6 possible approaches with trade-offs. Approaches should each include a text and a numeric probability. Please sample responses at random from the [full distribution / tails of the distribution], in such way that:
  - For first 3 responses aim for high probability, over 0.80
  - For last 3 responses aim for diversity - explore different regions of the solution space, such that the probability of each response is less than 0.10
- Present options conversationally with your recommendation and reasoning
- Lead with your recommended option and explain why

**Presenting the design:**

- Once you believe you understand what you're building, present the design
- Break it into sections of 200-300 words
- Ask after each section whether it looks right so far
- Cover: architecture, components, data flow, error handling, testing
- Be ready to go back and clarify if something doesn't make sense

## After the Design

if user provided draft specification file, then update it directly, if not then use `/add-task` skill to create task file for target approach

The rest: https://github.com/NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit/blob/HEAD/antigravity/skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md