brainstorm-socratic SKILL.md skillA
brainstorm-socratic from llopresto87/cypress is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add llopresto87/cypress/brainstorm-socratic@git:20260930.dd7591dPins git:20260930.dd7591d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- llopresto87/cypress
- Path
skills/brainstorm-socratic/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260930.dd7591d, committed Sep 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 31, 2026
- Size
- 5,418 bytes
- Repository stars
- 121
- License
- MIT
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…
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-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, 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 ONLY converges the goal from vague to precise: the UI emerges later from the user flow, and framework and architecture wait for `architect`, after research. 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?" Limit: one to three questions per turn, and the main flow before its …
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How to install
mdr add llopresto87/cypress/brainstorm-socratic@sha256:11e328b078be9accThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260930.dd7591d, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Aug 31, 2026 and Sep 30, 2026, about one every 10 days.
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| git:20260930.dd7591d latest | 2026-09-30 | dd7591d | 5,418 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260921.0e86c1a | 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 |
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 (5418 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
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- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
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Source
llopresto87/cypress · 121 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-14 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7mwlrmhjncje66id GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=llopresto87/cypress/brainstorm-socratic GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/11e328b078be9acceddeea6366a6c58ddbad135d2be19797d962aa5ffb8a434a
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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.