egm-brainstorm SKILL.md skillA
egm-brainstorm from google/elephant-goldfish-model is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add google/elephant-goldfish-model/egm-brainstorm@git:20261105.6a8001ePins git:20261105.6a8001e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- google/elephant-goldfish-model
- Path
distributions/claude/skills/egm-brainstorm/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20261105.6a8001e, committed Nov 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 27, 2026
- Size
- 15,205 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13,713
- License
- Apache-2.0
Interactive ideation and brainstorming skill for the Elephant & Goldfish Model (EGM). Helps turn half-baked concepts into structured hypotheses via clarifying questions, review, and iterative refinement. Produces an RFC summary for human review or more detailed design with egm-draft.
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
# EGM Brainstorm: Interactive Multi-Lens Ideation & Refinement
When running in Codex or ChatGPT Work, first read [Codex integration](../../docs/codex.md).
In Claude Code or Cowork, read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/docs/claude.md` first.
## Overview
This skill acts as the upstream conversational brainstorming engine for the
Elephant-Goldfish Model (EGM). It turns "half-baked" or raw concepts into
hypotheses by combining **interactive clarifying questions** with an automated
**Goldfish review**. The outcome is an iteratively refined RFC summary
(`concepts_brief.md`) that leads directly into `/egm-draft` or review with
peers.
## Delegation
A Goldfish runs in a fresh context with no conversation history. Spawn each
subagent with your harness's subagent tool (Antigravity: `invoke_subagent`; Claude Code: `Agent`; Codex: `spawn_agent`). Each subagent is defined in `agents/<file>.md`, and its
frontmatter `name` (for example `egm-zoom-out`) is the subagent type to request
where your harness registers named subagents. Otherwise spawn a general-purpose
subagent and tell it to read that persona file first. Pass the prompt verbatim
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add google/elephant-goldfish-model/egm-brainstorm@sha256:a660b44e3cfdd23dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261105.6a8001e, 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_dltswvqyxqjekq3p)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Oct 27, 2026 and Nov 5, 2026, about one every 2 days.
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| git:20261105.6a8001e latest | 2026-11-05 | 6a8001e | 15,205 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261102.de27902 | 2026-11-02 | de27902 | 14,769 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261102.36343a1 | 2026-11-02 | 36343a1 | 14,492 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261028.82b0396 | 2026-10-28 | 82b0396 | 14,202 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261028.7eb2706 | 2026-10-28 | 7eb2706 | 14,030 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261027.e45f640 | 2026-10-27 | e45f640 | 16,087 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 (15205 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
google/elephant-goldfish-model · 13,713 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dltswvqyxqjekq3p GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=google/elephant-goldfish-model/egm-brainstorm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a660b44e3cfdd23da8e8ecff2ff1aa01accb96ad2a823b67c90f89fc188ec7e8
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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.
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