brainstorm-socratic skillA
brainstorm-socratic is agent-read markdown (skill) from llopresto87/cypress: The Socratic questioning technique that converges a vague goal — question selection, one-to-three-per-turn pacing, the reflect-every-two-answers cadence, the nine-question hard cap, and the eight-point convergence checklist that defines "converged". This is the USER-FACING of the brainstorm protocol's two modes — use it when the decision is the owner's to make; when it is the session's own, the mode is skill.brainstorm-internal and there is nobody to question. The protocol owns entry/exit condit.
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What the file says
# brainstorm-socratic **This is the mode with a person in it.** It applies when the answer is the owner's to give — what to build, for whom, what counts as done, which tradeoff they have to live with. When the decision is the session's own, there is nobody to question and the technique below does not apply: use `docs/graph/skills/brainstorm-internal.md`. `brainstorm.mode-selection` in `docs/graph/protocols/brainstorm.md` owns the test. A goal that arrives as "build me a thing" is not yet ready to specify or plan. This skill is the questioning technique that takes it from vague to precise — without designing the UI, picking a framework, or pre-committing to architecture. It is applied inside `docs/graph/protocols/brainstorm.md`, which owns entry conditions, the grill.md output map, and the explicit-confirmation exit; this file owns the method. ## How to brainstorm ### Ask the smallest set of questions that change the design the most Bad: "What colour?", "What should the homepage look like?", "What framework?" Good: "Who is this for and what do they do today instead?", "What counts as success one month in?", "What is explicitly out of scope?" …
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How to install
mdr add llopresto87/cypress/brainstorm-socratic@git:20260921.0e86c1amdr add llopresto87/cypress/brainstorm-socratic@sha256:bde1b56006250111Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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| git:20260921.0e86c1a latest | 2026-09-21 | 0e86c1a | 6,000 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260915.df30567 | 2026-09-15 | df30567 | 5,997 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260831.6dde434 | 2026-08-31 | 6dde434 | 4,269 B | A | view |
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Source
llopresto87/cypress · 43 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main
API
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