brainstorming
You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, modifying behavior, or planning anything new, in software or out of it (a talk, a business, a renovation).
Before you install
- Last update
- Files in folder
- 8
- Scripts
- Contains scripts. Review them before running.
- SKILL.md size
- 9.8 KB (about 2,518 tokens of context each time it loads)
- License
- MIT
- Source on GitHub
- obra/superpowers
Skills are plain text instructions the agent follows, sometimes with scripts. Check the source, prefer repositories with many installs and stars, and read any script it ships.
Install
npx skills add obra/superpowers@brainstormingRuns in a terminal with Node.js 18 or newer. Add -y to skip the prompts and -g to install for every project instead of this one.
Install for your agent
npx skills add obra/superpowers@brainstorming --agent claude-code -y- Project install writes to
.claude/skills/brainstorming- Global install writes to
~/.claude/skills/brainstorming
Start a new session afterwards so the agent picks the skill up. In Claude Code you can also call it directly with /brainstorming.
What it does
Brainstorming You are very good at building. You build what you believe your human partner wants, and that belief is usually thinner than it feels. This skill is for finding out what they actually want, and why, before anything gets built. People often haven't finished working out what they want. Good questions help them think it through. When you understand the why, you make the hundred decisions they never mention the way they would have made them. First: What Do You Actually Know? Before you reply, ask yourself: what do I know about what they want, and why? - Everything that matters is in…
Excerpt from the skill's own SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub before installing: skills run with your agent's permissions.
Categories
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