Use when a person wants to think an idea through and keep the discussion: a feature, a tool choice, an architecture question, before a plan or without one, with the agent through an interview. Produces a board in aiview holding the decisions, the diagrams and what was investigated. Not for a swarm of seats working it (brainswarm), not for an implementation plan and not for bug fixes.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Brainstorm
**The discussion lives in one Markdown file from the first question, never in chat.**
`YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>.brainstorm.md`, through the `aiview` skill: kind `brainstorm`, tags = topic, group = the topic. With a
roadmap, the slot's slug is a tag. A resuming
session reads the board before asking anything again.
**Run the `interview` skill** and write each
answer into the board as it lands.
**The person asks for a swarm of seats to brainstorm or debate it**: the `brainswarm` skill
runs it on this board.
The board, in this order:
- **Human part**, written as the `aiview` skill's `references/human-part.md` says, refreshed at each settled decision.
- **Strategy**, a brainswarm only.
- **Decisions table**: the row core of the `interview` skill's `references/decisions.md`, plus `Log` (the entry `Q7`). The interview's `experiments` option is its first row.
- **Context being built on.**
- **Diagrams**, through the `write-diagrams` skill, drawn during the questions.
- **What ran**: the recipes the experiments hand back.
- **Interview log**, or a brainswarm's log, last: per question, verbatim, the options and the recommendation, then the answer as given.
…
The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261024.7900d5e, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the 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 (1721 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
ovich/swarmstorm · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4rfwruwenxxr4gkt
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ovich/swarmstorm/brainstorm
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/67e1812009284e6a6176cafce19f4b8a9da2278dd46e79cb691cc9825bad2d59
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ovich/swarmstorm · skills/alignment/brainswarm/SKILL.md · Use when a person wants a swarm of role seats to work a topic on the swarm board under a chosen protocol: a brainstorm…
ovich/swarmstorm · skills/alignment/interview/SKILL.md · Use when a person says "interview me" or asks to be interviewed about an idea or an existing design document (a board…
ovich/swarmstorm · skills/alignment/whiteboard-defense/SKILL.md · Use when a person wants to be questioned about a system they shipped, says "defend <feature>" or "whiteboard me on…
ovich/swarmstorm · skills/architecture/complexity-rework/SKILL.md · Use when code is hard to follow and is to be audited or reworked: long if/else or switch chains, cascades of type…
ovich/swarmstorm · skills/architecture/deepen-module/SKILL.md · Use when a person asks to design a new module's interface or to rework an existing module so that it hides much behind…
ovich/swarmstorm · skills/architecture/dependency-graph/SKILL.md · Use when a JavaScript or TypeScript project's dependencies must be seen as they are in the code: the whole graph, what…
ovich/swarmstorm · skills/architecture/write-diagrams/SKILL.md · Use when a document produced in this collection (board, plan, report, analysis, durable doc) could carry a diagram, or…
ovich/swarmstorm · skills/companions/aiview/SKILL.md · Use whenever a document is produced for the user to read and react to while it evolves: a brainstorm board, a plan, a…
ovich/swarmstorm · skills/companions/swarm-board/SKILL.md · Use when agents run together on the project's swarm board: a plan, a task swarm or a brainswarm, as its orchestrator or…
ovich/swarmstorm · skills/execute/execute-plan/SKILL.md · Use when carrying out an implementation plan the person has already approved, whether starting it or resuming it in a…
ovich/swarmstorm · skills/execute/orchestrate-plan/SKILL.md · Use whenever execute-plan runs, as the plan's orchestrator: settling the mandate, running the plan phase by phase on…
codeaholicguy/ai-devkit · skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md · AI DevKit · Use when the user asks to brainstorm, ideate, generate ideas, expand options, challenge ideas…
jtydhr88/comfytv · skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md · Pre-production ideation on the canvas. Use when the user wants to develop an idea, script, campaign, character, or…
rsmdt/the-startup · plugins/start/skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md · Required first step before any creative work — creating features, building components, adding functionality, or…
umputun/cc-thingz · plugins/brainstorm/skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md · Use before any creative work or significant changes. Activates on "brainstorm", "let's brainstorm", "deep analysis"…
