# Brainstorm

> Generate 3 materially different implementation options with trade-offs before coding, using project-specific brainstorm overrides when available.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-aksoftcode-aicrew-brainstorm`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [AKSoftCode](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/aksoftcode)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [AKSoftCode](https://github.com/AKSoftCode)
- **Source:** https://github.com/AKSoftCode/aicrew/tree/master/codex-skills/brainstorm
- **Website:** https://github.com/AKSoftCode/aicrew

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-aksoftcode-aicrew-brainstorm
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Brainstorm (Codex)

Use this skill when the user asks to brainstorm, compare approaches, or resolve design decisions before implementation.

## Default output

Caveman/lean style by default. See `~/Agents/agents/caveman.md` and `~/Agents/agents/context-economy.md`. `/normal` or `/lean off` restores verbose.

## Lookup order

Before generating options, check for project-specific guidance in this order:

1. `.ai/skills/agents/brainstorm.md`
2. `AGENTS.md`
3. `~/Agents/agents/brainstorm.md`

If a project override exists, follow it.
If not, use the default workflow below.

## Default workflow

1. Restate the problem in one sentence.
2. Identify the key decisions that must be resolved before coding.
3. Generate exactly 3 materially different options.
4. For each option, evaluate:
   - Complexity
   - Risk
   - Reversibility
   - Test surface
   - Prior art in the codebase
5. Recommend one option with a short rationale.
6. Ask the user to choose or modify an option before proceeding.

## Guardrails

- Do not invent domain rules, contracts, or constraints.
- Tie non-obvious claims to code or docs when possible.
- Prefer the smallest, most testable, most reversible option.
- Flag options that weaken validation, auditability, or traceability.

## Output format

```md
BRAINSTORM:

Problem statement:

DECISIONS TO RESOLVE BEFORE CODING:
1. ...
2. ...
3. ...

OPTION A — ...
OPTION B — ...
OPTION C — ...

RECOMMENDATION:

OPEN QUESTIONS:
- ...
```

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [AKSoftCode](https://github.com/AKSoftCode)
- **Source:** [AKSoftCode/aicrew](https://github.com/AKSoftCode/aicrew)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://github.com/AKSoftCode/aicrew

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-aksoftcode-aicrew-brainstorm
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/aksoftcode
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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