brainstorming SKILL.md skillA
brainstorming from obra/superpowers is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add obra/superpowers/brainstorming@git:20261010.bb92a77Pins git:20261010.bb92a77 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- obra/superpowers
- Path
skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261010.bb92a77, committed Oct 10, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 25, 2026
- Size
- 10,073 bytes
- Repository stars
- 302,424
- License
- MIT
You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, modifying behavior, or planning anything new, in software or out of it (a talk, a business, a renovation).
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
# Brainstorming
You are very good at building. You build what you believe your human
partner wants, and that belief is usually thinner than it feels. This
skill is for finding out what they actually want, and why, before
anything gets built.
People often haven't finished working out what they want. Good questions
help them think it through. When you understand the why, you make the
hundred decisions they never mention the way they would have made them.
## First: What Do You Actually Know?
Before you reply, ask yourself: what do I know about what they want, and
why?
- **Everything that matters is in the request** ("make the icon cornflower
blue"). This is a quick, clear task. Do it, and say what you did.
- **Something non-trivial is missing.** Start the conversation.
## Your First Message
Your first message is two things, in this order:
1. One line letting them know that if they'd rather skip the questions and
have you just start, they can say so. If they take you up on it, this
skill is done: state any significant how-it-gets-made choice
(platform, language, medium) in one plain line, then do what they
asked through the normal workflow.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add obra/superpowers/brainstorming@sha256:6ee10d1481b8a258The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261010.bb92a77, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_6gzxotwsmteic6eo)
6 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Mar 25, 2026 and Oct 10, 2026, about one every 33 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261010.bb92a77 latest | 2026-10-10 | bb92a77 | 10,073 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260919.5bf4e78 | 2026-09-19 | 5bf4e78 | 17,548 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260812.b36e082 | 2026-08-12 | b36e082 | 15,456 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260724.05d90ac | 2026-07-24 | 05d90ac | 10,047 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260616.5a0f895 | 2026-06-16 | 5a0f895 | 10,435 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260325.3f80f1c | 2026-03-25 | 3f80f1c | 10,634 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260325.4ae1a3d | 2026-03-25 | 4ae1a3d | 10,571 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10073 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
obra/superpowers · 302,424 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6gzxotwsmteic6eo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=obra/superpowers/brainstorming GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6ee10d1481b8a2580d5336ff66c5c08acc9d4b251b13bbc3bfd31be99c261d43
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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