# Brainstorming

> For Heavy-tier tasks only — turn ideas into specs through one-question-at-a-time dialogue, present design in sections, write spec doc, hand off to planning skill

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-hnikoloski-imlazy-imlazy-brainstorm`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [hnikoloski](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/hnikoloski)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Productivity](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/productivity)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [hnikoloski](https://github.com/hnikoloski)
- **Source:** https://github.com/hnikoloski/imlazy/tree/main/skills/imlazy-brainstorm
- **Website:** https://hnikoloski.github.io/imlazy/

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-hnikoloski-imlazy-imlazy-brainstorm
```

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

## About

# brainstorming

## When to use

The router invokes this skill ONLY for Heavy-tier tasks (multi-component, unclear scope, new subsystem, or user explicitly requests design/plan/architecture).

For Standard or Quick tier, skip brainstorming entirely — go straight to `Skill(imlazy-planning)` in light mode or inline execution.

This skill's job: produce a spec doc that `Skill(imlazy-planning)` can turn into an implementation plan.

## Process

1. **Explore project context** — read existing files, check recent commits before asking any questions.
2. **Ask clarifying questions one at a time.** Prefer multiple-choice. One question per message. Focus on: purpose, constraints, success criteria.
3. **Assess scope first.** If the request describes multiple independent subsystems, flag this and help the user decompose into sub-projects before proceeding. Each sub-project gets its own spec → plan → implementation cycle.
4. **Propose 2-3 approaches** with tradeoffs and your recommendation. Lead with the recommended option.
5. **Present the design in sections.** Get user approval section by section. Cover: architecture, components, data flow, error handling, testing.
6. **Write the spec** to `docs/imlazy/specs/YYYY-MM-DD--design.md`. Self-review for placeholders, contradictions, scope, and ambiguity. Fix inline.
7. **Ask the user to review the spec** before proceeding.
8. **Hand off** to `Skill(imlazy-planning)` in full mode. Do not invoke any other skill.

## Key principles

- One question at a time. Multiple-choice preferred over open-ended.
- YAGNI ruthlessly — cut unrequested features from the design.
- Always propose 2-3 approaches before settling.
- Explore the existing codebase before proposing changes. Follow existing patterns. Targeted improvements to broken code you are touching are fine; unrelated refactoring is not.
- Be flexible — go back and clarify when something does not make sense.

## Spec self-review checklist

Before asking the user to review, check:
1. Placeholder scan — any TBD/TODO/incomplete sections?
2. Internal consistency — do sections contradict each other?
3. Scope check — focused enough for one implementation plan?
4. Ambiguity check — can any requirement be interpreted two ways?

Fix issues inline. No need to re-review.

## Hand-off

After the user approves the spec, invoke `Skill(imlazy-planning)` in full mode. Do not invoke any other skill — `imlazy-planning` is the terminal state for this skill.

## Source & license

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

- **Author:** [hnikoloski](https://github.com/hnikoloski)
- **Source:** [hnikoloski/imlazy](https://github.com/hnikoloski/imlazy)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://hnikoloski.github.io/imlazy/

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-hnikoloski-imlazy-imlazy-brainstorm
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/hnikoloski
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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