Run a real brainstorm — divergent generation without judgment, then convergent selection with explicit criteria — instead of listing ten obvious ideas and calling it creativity. Use when asked to brainstorm, generate ideas or options, explore a solution space, or name something. Produces a genuinely wide option set (including the weird tail), then a shortlist selected against named criteria with the rejects preserved.
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# Brainstorming Skill
Asked to brainstorm, a model produces ten reasonable ideas that any competent person would list — which is retrieval, not ideation. Real brainstorming has two phases with a wall between them: **diverge** (volume, no judgment, deliberately weird) then **converge** (explicit criteria, honest scoring). This skill enforces the wall.
## What This Skill Produces
- A **divergent set**: 20-40 ideas spanning distinct strategies, not ten variants of one idea
- A **convergent shortlist**: 3-5 selected against criteria named *before* scoring
- The **reject ledger**: what was set aside and why — half the value, always preserved
## Required Inputs
Ask for (if not already provided):
- **The problem or prompt**, and what an idea must accomplish to count
- **Constraints that are real** (budget/tech/brand) vs assumed — challenge one assumed constraint deliberately
- **What's been tried or rejected already** (avoids retreading; also reveals the requester's hidden criteria)
## Divergent Phase (no judgment permitted)
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The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260714.b87d8d4, 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.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_76rjqqaaqpg3ef7g
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/brainstorming
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