One Question at a Time
The skill asks questions one at a time to avoid overwhelming you and ensure clear understanding. This focused approach helps refine your idea gradually while keeping the conversation natural and productive.
Skill
Brainstorming
Turn ideas into fully formed designs through collaborative dialogue
Use in Claude Code
/amplify:brainstorming This skill turns rough ideas into complete designs through natural conversation. It diverges first — exposing many options and studying each in its own subagent to keep the conversation clean — then lets your purpose sharpen as you react to those options, then connects the survivors into a coherent design. As it converges it previews the same design components and task graph that the write-plan skill will formalize, so entering plan mode formalizes what you already discussed instead of introducing new structure.
Key Insights
Diverge Before Converging
The skill exposes many options before narrowing and studies each one in its own subagent, so deep research stays out of the conversation. It then draws out your purpose by having you react to concrete choices rather than answer abstract questions.
Progressive Disclosure
As the design converges, the skill previews the same design components and task graph the plan will use. By the time you enter plan mode, write-plan formalizes what you already discussed instead of surprising you with new structure.
Information Validation
All external information is verified for credibility and recency before being used. The skill checks sources, dates, and resolves conflicts to ensure you're working with accurate, up-to-date information.
Incremental Design Review
Designs are presented in small, manageable sections of 200-300 words. After each section, you're asked for feedback to ensure everything looks right before moving forward, preventing major rework later.
Project Context Aware
The skill starts by understanding your current project state, including files, documentation, and recent changes. This context-aware approach ensures solutions fit seamlessly into your existing work.
How It Works
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Diverge — Expose Choices
Surface many candidate options and study each one in isolation.
The skill grounds itself in your project (files, docs, recent commits), then names many candidate options and spawns a subagent per option to gather web-grounded, validated facts and return a compact brief. Only the briefs come back to the conversation, so divergence stays clean.
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Clarify — Sharpen Purpose
Sharpen what you want by reacting to the options on the table.
The skill asks focused questions one at a time, anchored to the options it surfaced, and pins down your user stories, constraints, and success criteria. Diverge and Clarify interleave: your reactions reshape which options stay in play.
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Connect — Build the Design
Connect the surviving options into a design, validated section by section.
The skill connects the survivors into a coherent design, presented in 200-300 word sections you validate one at a time. It organizes the design by the same components the plan will use and sketches the tasks and their dependencies, previewing what write-plan formalizes.
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Update Plan
If in plan mode, automatically update your project plan with the new design.
When working with project plans, the skill seamlessly updates your plan file with the newly developed design, keeping your documentation current without requiring manual updates.