# Brainstorming

> Use when the user asks to design, plan, or explore approaches before implementing — creating features, building components, or adding functionality that would benefit from design exploration first.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-benkapner-claude-code-basecamp-brainstorming`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Benkapner](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/benkapner)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Benkapner](https://github.com/Benkapner)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Benkapner/claude-code-basecamp/tree/main/skills/brainstorming

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-benkapner-claude-code-basecamp-brainstorming
```

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

## About

# Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs

Help turn ideas into fully formed designs through collaborative dialogue.

When this skill activates, present a design before writing code. The design can be short (a few sentences for simple projects) — scale it to the complexity of the task. Get the user's approval before proceeding to implementation.

## Process

1. **Explore context** — check files, docs, recent commits
2. **Ask clarifying questions** — one at a time, prefer multiple choice, understand purpose/constraints/success criteria
3. **Propose 2-3 approaches** — with trade-offs and your recommendation
4. **Present design** — scale each section to its complexity, ask after each section if it looks right
5. **Write spec** — save to `docs/specs/` (create directory if needed) and commit
6. **User reviews spec** — wait for approval before proceeding
7. **Transition** — invoke writing-plans skill to create implementation plan

## Design Principles

- **One question at a time** — don't overwhelm with multiple questions
- **YAGNI ruthlessly** — remove unnecessary features
- **Design for isolation** — break into units with one clear purpose, well-defined interfaces, testable independently
- **Explore alternatives** — always propose 2-3 approaches before settling
- **Scope check** — if the request describes multiple independent subsystems, decompose into sub-projects first

## Working in Existing Codebases

- Explore the current structure before proposing changes. Follow existing patterns.
- Where existing code has problems that affect the work, include targeted improvements as part of the design.
- Don't propose unrelated refactoring. Stay focused on what serves the current goal.

## After Design Approval

Invoke the writing-plans skill to create a detailed implementation plan. Do NOT invoke any other skill — writing-plans is the next step.

## Source & license

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

- **Author:** [Benkapner](https://github.com/Benkapner)
- **Source:** [Benkapner/claude-code-basecamp](https://github.com/Benkapner/claude-code-basecamp)
- **License:** MIT

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-benkapner-claude-code-basecamp-brainstorming
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/benkapner
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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