brainstorming

SkillMedia

Lets your agent develop rough ideas into complete designs by asking questions and exploring alternatives.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the brainstorming skill

About this capability

Transform rough ideas into fully-formed designs through structured questioning and alternative exploration. Useful early in concept work.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by nexu-io/open-design in skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Curated from @obra.

What it does

Transform rough ideas into fully-formed designs through structured questioning and alternative exploration. Useful early in concept work.

Source

How to use

This catalogue entry advertises the skill in OpenDesign so the agent discovers it during planning. To run the full upstream workflow with its original assets, scripts, and references, install the upstream bundle into your active agent's skills directory:

# Inspect the upstream README for exact paths
open https://github.com/obra/superpowers

Then ask the agent to invoke this skill by name (brainstorming) or with one of the trigger phrases listed in this skill's frontmatter.

Signals

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skill
Gateway key
brainstorming-nexu-io
Source
github.com/nexu-io/open-design