Skill Atlas

Brainstorming

Turn vague ideas into planning-ready briefs. Clarify the problem, recommend a direction, and capture acceptance criteria — before a line of code is written.

Install this skill

npx skillatlas install --auto-update

Most things labeled "brainstorming" are really just "thinking out loud until everyone's exhausted." This skill is different: it treats a vague idea as a problem to be solved, not a prompt to be rambled at. It reads your codebase before asking questions, asks at most one question per turn, and comes back with a recommendation — not a menu of possibilities.

The output is a planning-ready brief: a problem statement, a recommended direction, the trade-offs worth knowing, and a clear next step. Tight enough to hand straight to planning. Short enough that you'll actually read it.

It also knows when to skip itself. If your request is already specific, it gets out of the way and moves on. No mandatory discovery sessions for a two-line bug fix.