Plan Creative Work Before Building
Teams often start implementation before goals, constraints, and trade-offs are clear. This skill guides Claude, Codex, and Claude Code through structured brainstorming before design work begins.
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Using "brainstorming". Plan a dashboard export feature for our analytics app.
Expected outcome:
The assistant asks focused questions about users, export formats, permissions, and scale before presenting design options.
Using "brainstorming". Compare ways to add offline support to a mobile app.
Expected outcome:
The assistant presents multiple approaches, explains trade-offs, recommends one, and validates each design section with the user.
Using "brainstorming". Create a design plan after we agree on the approach.
Expected outcome:
The assistant drafts a structured plan covering architecture, components, data flow, error handling, and testing responsibilities.
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date-released: "2026-07-08"
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Clarify purpose, constraints, and success criteria before choosing an implementation path.
Evaluate several possible designs and select a recommended direction with clear trade-offs.
Turn a validated idea into a structured design covering architecture, data flow, errors, and tests.
Use the brainstorming skill to help clarify this idea: [describe the idea]. Ask one question at a time before proposing designs.
Use the brainstorming skill to plan a feature for [project]. Start by reviewing context, then identify requirements, constraints, and success criteria.
Use the brainstorming skill to compare two or three approaches for [goal]. Recommend one option and explain the trade-offs clearly.
Use the brainstorming skill to turn this validated concept into a design spec. Cover architecture, components, data flow, errors, and testing.
Author
ZhanlinCuiLicense
MIT
Skillstore revision
r1
Version notice
The author did not declare a version.
Ref
64ca8af0f54a325752f08bd54e52151061ea659a
Maintenance freshness
7/20/2026
Usage
181 downloads ยท 157 views
File structure
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