🔎 Brainstorming
This skill helps you brainstorm effectively before features, clarifying intent, exploring options, and guiding design decisions to align with user goals.
npx playbooks add skill everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill brainstorming
About Brainstorming
The Brainstorming skill is a search tool that assists developers in generating ideas and exploring options before starting to code, helping to clarify the intent and goals of a project and guide design decisions to meet user needs. It enables developers to think through their project's requirements and potential solutions, aligning features with user goals. Developers would use this skill at the outset of a project to inform their design and development process.
This compact 21-word instruction set is purpose-built for search & research work in AI coding agents. Install with a single command.
Example Prompts
System Prompt (21 words)
This skill helps you brainstorm effectively before features, clarifying intent, exploring options, and guiding design decisions to align with user goals.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Brainstorming?
Brainstorming is a free search & research skill for AI coding agents. This skill helps you brainstorm effectively before features, clarifying intent, exploring options, and guiding design decisions to align with user goals.. It provides a specialized system prompt that configures your agent with search & research expertise.
How do I use Brainstorming with Claude Code?
Run npx playbooks add skill everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill brainstorming in your terminal to install Brainstorming into your Claude Code session. It works immediately after installation.
Which AI coding agents work with Brainstorming?
Brainstorming is compatible with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, OpenClaw, Cline, and any AI agent that supports custom system prompts or .cursorrules files.
Is Brainstorming free to use?
Yes, Brainstorming is completely free and open source. The full source is available on GitHub at https://github.com/everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin/tree/main/plugins/compound-engineering/skills/brainstorming. You only need a subscription to the AI agent you use it with.
