MUST use this before any creative work — features, components, functionality, behavior changes. Explores user intent and design before implementation.
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# Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs
Help turn ideas into fully formed designs and specs through natural collaborative dialogue.
Start by understanding the current project context, then ask questions one at a time to refine the idea. Once you understand what you're building, present the design and get user approval.
> **HARD GATE.** Do NOT invoke any implementation skill, write any code, scaffold any project, or take any implementation action until you have presented a design and the user has approved it. This applies to EVERY project regardless of perceived simplicity.
## Anti-Pattern: "This Is Too Simple To Need A Design"
Every project goes through this process. A todo list, a single-function utility, a config change — all of them. "Simple" projects are where unexamined assumptions cause the most wasted work. The design can be short (a few sentences for truly simple projects), but you MUST present it and get approval.
## Checklist
You MUST track each item below as a discrete step in your working notes (use whatever status notation your runtime provides — checklist in your reply, in a planning doc, etc.) and complete them in order:
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GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=arcanada-one/datarim/brainstorming
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/93ac73f97c0ffb1cd69046b746eece76c20dd74fc8aad8bd8cb19b50cfd2db12
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