# Consulting Design

> Consult Gemini AI for architecture alternatives, design trade-offs, and brainstorming. Use when seeking different perspectives on design, evaluating architectural approaches, comparing solutions, or generating creative ideas.

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

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-julianobarbosa-claude-code-skills-consulting-design
```

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

## About

# Design Consultation with Gemini

## Tools

| Tool                      | Use For                                     |
| ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- |
| `mcp__gemini__ask-gemini` | Architecture, design review, trade-offs     |
| `mcp__gemini__brainstorm` | Generating alternatives, creative solutions |

## ask-gemini

```json
{
  "prompt": "I'm designing [system]. Current approach: [desc]. Trade-offs and alternatives?",
  "model": "gemini-2.5-pro"
}
```

Options: `changeMode: true` for structured edits, `sandbox: true` for code execution

## brainstorm

```json
{
  "prompt": "How might we [challenge]?",
  "domain": "software",
  "methodology": "auto",
  "ideaCount": 10
}
```

Methodologies: `divergent`, `convergent`, `scamper`, `design-thinking`, `lateral`, `auto`

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## Gotchas

- **Gemini brainstorm output is non-deterministic** — same prompt rerun gives different ideas; save outputs you want to reference.
- **`ask-gemini` doesn't preserve conversation context across calls** — multi-turn questions need explicit history concatenation in each prompt.
- **API quota is per-project per-day** — bursting on a free tier locks the project out until midnight Pacific.
- **Output is markdown but can include LaTeX math** — downstream tooling that doesn't render math gets garbled output without warning.
- **`brainstorm` defaults to 5 ideas** — for divergent ideation, explicitly request more; the default is a hard cap.

## Source & license

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

- **Author:** [julianobarbosa](https://github.com/julianobarbosa)
- **Source:** [julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills](https://github.com/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills)
- **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-julianobarbosa-claude-code-skills-consulting-design
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/julianobarbosa
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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