brainstorming SKILL.md skillA
brainstorming from ahgraber/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ahgraber/skills/brainstorming@git:20260819.209d97bPins git:20260819.209d97b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ahgraber/skills
- Path
skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260819.209d97b, committed Aug 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 23, 2026
- Size
- 11,229 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- CC0-1.0
Use when turning a fuzzy idea into a refined design through dialogue — across software, writing, talks, events, naming, activities, or any creative/design task. Its adversarial lenses also stress-test a plan or proposal already on the table. Triggers: 'brainstorm', 'help me think about/through', 'figure out', 'work through', 'I have this idea', 'let's design', 'flesh this out'. Domain-agnostic. Not for: open-ended ideation with no anchor ('what should I build?'), implementing from a finalized…
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 ## When to Use - Fuzzy premise with an anchor (problem, audience, constraint) but no shape — "I need something for X but don't know [what shape/form it takes, how it works, how to implement it, what the right approach is]." - Stuck direction: problem is clear, solution shape isn't - Competing options: 2–3 candidate approaches; want pressure-testing - Cross-domain design: software, writing, talks, events, naming, curricula - Rubber-duck / organize own thinking (no decision required) ## When Not to Use - Narrow binary decisions — just ask directly - Retrospective review / postmortem - Reframing whether the presenting question is the "real" question - Implementing code from a finalized design — use the appropriate implementation skill - Narrow bug fixes, mechanical refactors, formatting passes ## Invocation Notice - Tell the user when this skill is running: `brainstorming`. Skip the notice when the user asked for the skill by name or slash command; spelling and spacing need not match. A phrase from this skill's own trigger list is not a name — naming the work is not naming the skill. ## Core Discipline …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ahgraber/skills/brainstorming@sha256:1f83aebc8ef79630The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260819.209d97b, 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 Apr 23, 2026 and Aug 19, 2026, about one every 39 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260819.209d97b latest | 2026-08-19 | 209d97b | 11,229 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260819.d423c54 | 2026-08-19 | d423c54 | 11,023 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260712.b980670 | 2026-07-12 | b980670 | 9,979 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260423.ab3f099 | 2026-04-23 | ab3f099 | 9,776 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 (11229 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
ahgraber/skills · 6 stars · license CC0-1.0 · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fmgi66slqbt5cxpi GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ahgraber/skills/brainstorming GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1f83aebc8ef7963062d016ee61e8dccfea813165d4432d77a97291eb70d67e6b
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.