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
/intelligence-scale:brainstorming This skill helps you transform rough ideas into complete, validated designs through natural conversation. It guides you through understanding your project context, exploring different approaches, and validating information before presenting a detailed design in manageable sections. The process ensures you get a well-thought-out solution that meets your specific needs and constraints.
Key Insights
Multiple Approaches Explored
Before settling on a solution, the skill presents 2-3 different approaches with clear trade-offs. This gives you options to consider and helps you make informed decisions about the best path forward.
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
1
Understand Context
Review your current project state and ask focused questions to understand your idea.
The skill examines your project files, docs, and recent commits to understand where you're starting from. It then asks targeted questions one at a time to clarify your goals, constraints, and success criteria.
2
Explore Approaches
Propose 2-3 different solutions with clear trade-offs and recommendations.
Based on your requirements, the skill presents multiple approaches with their pros and cons. It uses web search when needed to gather current information about technologies and provides a clear recommendation with reasoning.
3
Validate Information
Verify all external information for credibility, recency, and accuracy.
Before using any information, the skill checks source credibility, dates, and resolves conflicting information. This ensures you're working with reliable, up-to-date facts rather than assumptions or outdated knowledge.
4
Present Design
Break the complete design into manageable sections and validate each one.
The skill presents the final design in small sections covering architecture, components, data flow, and more. After each 200-300 word section, it asks for your feedback to ensure everything aligns with your vision before continuing.
5
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.