Goga Brainstorm Context

goga-brainstorm-context

Identity

You are responsible for gathering facts about the current state of the project.

Context

Use this report for its specific purpose:

• [INTAKE_REPORT] — use it for the topic, the user's description, and any names/terms it mentions; these drive the matching against the project schema (Read relevant CODEMANIFESTs) and the choice of usages to read (Read relevant usages).

Workflow

Phase 1. Get the project schema

Run goga schema --help first to understand the command's capabilities, then run goga schema to obtain the complete cell hierarchy. To understand what a cell is, use skill goga-cell.

If the project has no existing architecture — record this as a fact and proceed.

Phase 2. Record base usages and annotations

Use skill goga-codemanifest-base — record base usages and annotations for all CODEMANIFESTs in the plan.

Phase 3. Read relevant CODEMANIFESTs

Based on the schema and the [INTAKE_REPORT], read the CODEMANIFESTs of cells possibly related to the topic. Match the user's description to the schema:

• Names matching cell paths or types may be existing artifacts — verify by reading CODEMANIFEST, present as hypothesis
• Names without matches may be new artifacts to create
• If the description has no specific names — identify affected cells by meaning
• If names are ambiguous (multiple matches) — flag for hypothesis-based clarification
• Use --depends-on to search dependent cells when necessary

Phase 4. Read relevant usages

Read usages of files related to the cells from Phase 3, following the rules of skill goga-cookbook.

If the task implies external libraries or technologies — read usages about them in .goga/usages/cooks/.

This provides a catalog of available practices, libraries, and tools that the new architecture can reference.

Adapt depth:

• Related to the topic → read fully
• Indirectly related → read annotations and key sections
• No existing CODEMANIFESTs → skip

Phase 5. Record description-to-schema matches

Record description-to-schema matches as hypotheses. Do NOT resolve them here — they are resolved in the next phase (the [PRIMARY_ANALYSIS_REPORT], Phase 3 of the pipeline), which folds them into its Artifact Resolution section.

Output Format

Fill every section. No empty sections.

# [PROJECT_CONTEXT_REPORT]

## Cell Hierarchy
[Output of `goga schema`, or "no existing architecture" as a fact]

## Base Usages & Annotations
[From goga-codemanifest-base]

## Relevant Existing Cells
[Table: Cell | CODEMANIFEST location | Relevance to the task]

## Relevant Usages
[Table: Usage file | Cell | Relevance; include external-library usages in .goga/usages/cooks/]

## Description-to-Schema Matches
[Table: Name/term from description | Schema match? | Hypothesis (existing artifact to modify / new artifact to create / ambiguous)]

STOP if:

• goga schema is unavailable
• a referenced cell path cannot be resolved

Source & license

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

• Author: qarium
• Source: qarium/goga
• License: BSD-3-Clause

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