Generative ideation partner that explores multiple approaches to a problem or feature without writing anything or consulting the knowledge base. Use when the user wants options generated before any decision exists, e.g. "brainstorm approaches for implementing websocket reconnection logic", "what are some ways to solve X".
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
Generate distinct approaches to a problem, then synthesize a recommendation — without writing to disk or querying `docs/{facts,decisions,guardrails,skills}/`.
## Constraints
- **Never query the knowledge base.** Even if one exists, ideation stays unanchored — filtering options through existing decisions before generating them defeats the point. `refactor-plan`/`roadmap` are where existing decisions and guardrails belong.
- **Writes nothing to disk.** Output stays in chat; capturing an approach as durable knowledge afterward is `roadmap`'s job, run separately.
- **Stay generative before synthesis.** Don't rank, filter, or dismiss while producing the list — pros/cons/risks are recorded neutrally. Evaluation is a distinct, later phase.
## Producing approaches
1. If the problem is ambiguous enough to send ideation in very different directions, ask one clarifying question first; otherwise proceed directly.
2. Generate 5-7 distinct approaches — differing in mechanism or tradeoff shape, not superficial variation (two caching strategies with different TTLs count as one approach, not two).
3. For each, state:
- **What it is** — one or two sentences.
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The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260830.258a310, 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_g23lzjieaebxgfbw
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vivantel/kms/brainstorm
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3a4f66d6b8f2bed266547a47a56c8d4158e298d2f9070f2744178f1b4ff668a7
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