# Brainstorming

> Use when the user wants to brainstorm or explore an idea — a feature, product direction, or "what if" — before deciding whether it deserves a plan. Ideation only — ends in an idea brief, not a design.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-yassimba-loom-brainstorming`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Yassimba](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/yassimba)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Upstream author:** [Yassimba](https://github.com/Yassimba)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Yassimba/loom/tree/main/skills/brainstorming

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-yassimba-loom-brainstorming
```

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

## About

# Brainstorming

Turn a fuzzy idea into a clear direction through conversation. Brainstorming answers **what are we trying to do?** — *how will we build it?* belongs to `grill-with-docs`, so when the conversation drifts toward architecture, code, or "how should this fit this repo?", stop and offer to move there. The brief below is the only artifact this skill produces: no specs, issues, commits, or code.

If invoked with no idea attached, read `references/gamechanging-feature.md` and follow it to surface a candidate.

## Diverge

1. **Name the raw idea.** Restate it in one or two sentences so the user can correct you early.
2. **Ask one question per turn** about purpose, audience, pain, outcome, constraints, and non-goals. Make each easy to answer: concrete options, multiple choice when it helps, your recommended answer included.
3. **Sketch what has shape.** When the idea is visual — UI, workflow, comparison, diagram, mental model — a sketch beats another paragraph, so reach for the companion routinely. Offer it in its own message and wait:
   > Want me to spin up a local browser companion for sketches and diagrams? It's token-heavier but often clearer than text. (Requires opening a local URL.)
   If they agree, read `references/visual-companion.md` and follow it; if they decline, continue text-only.
4. **Offer 2–3 directions** with plain-language trade-offs.

## Converge

When you can fill every field of the brief from the user's own answers — not your guesses — produce it:

```md
## Idea brief

Idea:

Audience:

Problem / pain:

Desired outcome:

Non-goals:

Promising directions:
1.
2.
3.

Recommended direction:

Open questions for `grill-with-docs`:
-
-
```

Then ask (use AskUserQuestion if available):

> Want to run `grill-with-docs` to refine this idea further?
> Want to save this idea to pick up later?

If they save it: write the brief to `ai-docs/plans//idea.md` (today's date, short kebab-case project slug; create the directory), and if the visual companion ran, copy its mockup HTML files from the session's `screen_dir` into `mockups/` beside the brief. In that same directory, `/to-spec` will later write `spec.md` and `/to-tickets` will write `issues/-.md`.

## Source & license

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

- **Author:** [Yassimba](https://github.com/Yassimba)
- **Source:** [Yassimba/loom](https://github.com/Yassimba/loom)
- **License:** Apache-2.0

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-yassimba-loom-brainstorming
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/yassimba
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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