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brainstorming skillA

Name: brainstorming
Author: reidemeister94

brainstorming is agent-read markdown (skill) from reidemeister94/development-skills: Use when the user wants to brainstorm, choose an approach, design something, or clarify an ambiguous or consequential change..

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

What the file says

# Brainstorming

Interview until you and the user share the same understanding.
Walk every branch of the decision tree and resolve dependent decisions in order.
Attach a recommended answer and its trade-off to every question.
Group only independent questions, as the [development loop](../../shared/development-loop.md) Reach agreement section requires.
The number of questions follows the ambiguity: stop when every branch is settled, not at a fixed count.
This rule applies on every path, whether or not the task needs a plan and chronicle.

<HARD-GATE>
Do not write code before the presented design or plan is approved.
Do not write the plan while purpose, scope, solved state, proof, or a contested design remains unresolved.
Once these points are settled, return them to the development loop.
The loop presents the complete design or plan before asking for approval.
Do not ask for separate approval before the plan.

If the user asks for no questions, remove ceremony but keep open decisions.
Present the open decisions with recommendations in one pass instead of choosing silently.
</HARD-GATE>

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How to install

Latest version

mdr add reidemeister94/development-skills/brainstorming@git:20260919.a9f7da5

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mdr add reidemeister94/development-skills/brainstorming@sha256:50764ae571e2387a

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Versions

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260919.a9f7da5 latest	2026-09-19	a9f7da5	2,438 B	A	view · diff
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git:20260619.7e71b6e	2026-06-19	7e71b6e	7,127 B	A	view · diff
git:20260617.174aad8	2026-06-17	174aad8	6,601 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2438 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

reidemeister94/development-skills · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4lekm3336puwvto3
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=reidemeister94/development-skills/brainstorming
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/50764ae571e2387a2a76648b4604e08892be3c85ea04dd7865aadde7222b79e7

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