brainstorming
You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation.
Install
npx skills add obra/superpowers@brainstormingRuns in your terminal. Adds the skill globally for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and others; add -g -y to skip prompts.
What it does
Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs Help turn ideas into fully formed designs and specs through natural collaborative dialogue. Start by classifying how much process the request needs, then work through your path: understand the context, refine the idea, present a design, and get your human partner's approval. Do NOT invoke any implementation skill, write any code, scaffold any project, or take any implementation action until you have told your human partner what you intend and they have approved it. This applies to EVERY task on EVERY path below — the ceremony scales with the task; the approval…
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View source on GitHubBefore you install
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Categories
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