Brainstorming

Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs

Overview

Help turn ideas into fully formed designs and specs through natural collaborative dialogue.

Start by understanding the current project context, then ask questions one at a time to refine the idea. Once you understand what you're building, present the design in small sections (200-300 words), checking after each section whether it looks right so far.

The Process

Understanding the idea:

• Check out the current project state first (files, docs, recent commits)
• Ask questions one at a time to refine the idea
• Prefer multiple choice questions when possible, but open-ended is fine too
• Only one question per message - if a topic needs more exploration, break it into multiple questions
• Focus on understanding: purpose, constraints, success criteria

Exploring approaches:

• Propose 2-3 different approaches with trade-offs
• Present options conversationally with your recommendation and reasoning
• Lead with your recommended option and explain why

Presenting the design:

• Once you believe you understand what you're building, present the design
• Break it into sections of 200-300 words
• Ask after each section whether it looks right so far
• Cover: architecture, components, data flow, error handling, testing
• Be ready to go back and clarify if something doesn't make sense

After the Design

Document Generation Preview (REQUIRED): Once the design is validated, ALWAYS show what will be generated:

📋 Document Generation Preview
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✓ docs/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-{topic}-design.md
✓ docs/PRD.md
✓ docs/TECH-SPEC.md
✓ docs/PROGRESS.md

[ Submit ] - 문서 생성 진행
[ Edit ]   - 디자인 수정 후 다시 확인
[ Cancel ] - 디자인 문서만 저장

User Choice Handling:

• Submit: Generate all development documents using dev-docs-writer
• Edit: Go back to design refinement, show preview again when done
• Cancel: Save design document only, skip full documentation

Documentation (after Submit):

• Write the validated design to docs/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>-design.md
• Trigger dev-docs-writer to generate PRD, TECH-SPEC, PROGRESS
• Commit the documents to git

Implementation (if continuing):

• Ask: "Ready to set up for implementation?"
• Use superpowers:using-git-worktrees to create isolated workspace
• Use superpowers:writing-plans to create detailed implementation plan

Key Principles

• One question at a time - Don't overwhelm with multiple questions
• Multiple choice preferred - Easier to answer than open-ended when possible
• YAGNI ruthlessly - Remove unnecessary features from all designs
• Explore alternatives - Always propose 2-3 approaches before settling
• Incremental validation - Present design in sections, validate each
• Be flexible - Go back and clarify when something doesn't make sense
• Always Confirm Before Docs - ALWAYS show document generation preview and get user confirmation before creating full documentation