Brainstorming & Design Planner

About

The Brainstorming skill is designed to bridge the gap between initial ideas and final implementation by guiding Claude through a rigorous discovery and design phase. It ensures that user intent is fully understood through one-at-a-time questioning, explores multiple architectural approaches with transparent trade-offs, and validates the final design incrementally to prevent over-engineering. By documenting the validated design in a formal plan and integrating with Git, it creates a reliable roadmap for the development phase.

Key Features

• Iterative discovery using focused, one-at-a-time questioning
• Incremental design validation in digestible 200-300 word sections
• Automatic generation of dated design documentation in Markdown
• Ruthless YAGNI filtering to eliminate unnecessary feature creep
• 2 GitHub stars
• Comparative analysis of 2-3 technical approaches with recommendations

Use Cases

• Evaluating architectural trade-offs before starting a complex refactor
• Mapping out data flows and component structures for new functionality
• Refining a vague feature request into a concrete technical specification