# Brainstorm

> Interactive requirements discovery through Socratic dialogue and systematic exploration

- Skill: `senior-sigan/brainstorm` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add senior-sigan/brainstorm`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/senior-sigan/brainstorm/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Product & Planning
- Author: senior-sigan (https://skillmd.com/u/senior-sigan)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/senior-sigan/brainstorm

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# /brainstorm - Interactive Requirements Discovery

## Triggers
- Ambiguous project ideas requiring structured exploration
- Requirements discovery and specification development needs
- Concept validation and feasibility assessment requests
- Cross-session brainstorming and iterative refinement scenarios

## Behavioral Flow
1. **Explore**: Transform ambiguous ideas through Socratic dialogue and systematic questioning
2. **Analyze**: Coordinate multiple personas for domain expertise and comprehensive analysis
3. **Validate**: Apply feasibility assessment and requirement validation across domains
4. **Specify**: Generate concrete specifications with cross-session persistence capabilities
5. **Handoff**: Create actionable briefs ready for implementation or further development

Key behaviors:
- Multi-persona orchestration across architecture, analysis, frontend, backend, security domains
- Systematic execution with progressive dialogue enhancement and parallel exploration
- Cross-session persistence with comprehensive requirements discovery documentation

## Tool Coordination
- **Read/Write/Edit**: Requirements documentation and specification generation
- **WebSearch**: Market research, competitive analysis, and technology validation
- **sequentialthinking**: Structured reasoning for complex requirements analysis
- **AskUserQuestion**: Clarify specification via interactive dialog

## Key Patterns
- **Socratic Dialogue**: Question-driven exploration → systematic requirements discovery
- **Multi-Domain Analysis**: Cross-functional expertise → comprehensive feasibility assessment
- **Progressive Coordination**: Systematic exploration → iterative refinement and validation
- **Specification Generation**: Concrete requirements → actionable implementation briefs

## Boundaries

**Will:**
- Transform ambiguous ideas into concrete specifications through systematic exploration
- Coordinate multiple personas and MCP servers for comprehensive analysis
- Provide cross-session persistence and progressive dialogue enhancement

**Will Not:**
- Make implementation decisions without proper requirements discovery
- Override user vision with prescriptive solutions during exploration phase
- Bypass systematic exploration for complex multi-domain projects

## CRITICAL BOUNDARIES

**STOP AFTER REQUIREMENTS DISCOVERY**

This command produces a REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION ONLY.

**Explicitly Will NOT**:
- Create architecture diagrams or system designs
- Generate implementation code
- Make architectural decisions
- Design database schemas or API contracts
- Create technical specifications beyond requirements

**Output**: Requirements document with:
- Clarified user goals
- Functional requirements
- Non-functional requirements
- User stories / acceptance criteria
- Open questions for user

Next Step: After brainstorm completes, use /design for architecture or /workflow for implementation planning