ai-brainstorm SKILL.md skillA
ai-brainstorm from arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering/ai-brainstorm@git:20260929.3986acbPins git:20260929.3986acb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering
- Path
skills/ai-brainstorm/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20260929.3986acb, committed Sep 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 1, 2026
- Size
- 16,558 bytes
- Repository stars
- 62
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when the user brings a fuzzy idea that must be pinned down before research or planning — "handshake", "get on the same page", "align on this idea", "let me explain my vision", or before ANY creative work (a feature, a component, a behavior change). One question at a time until the whole idea can be explained in 3rd-grader language, the request classified (spike / bounded / architectural), the design approved, and the result captured in a self-contained doc that a researcher agent and a…
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
# ai-brainstorm — interrogate until shared understanding, then design
Two methods, one flow. **Handshake** interrogates the user until the idea is understood so
completely it can be explained in 3rd-grader language, and captures it in a self-contained
doc. **Design gating** (obra/superpowers) classifies how much process the request needs and
puts a hard approval gate before any implementation. The union: understand first, classify
second, approve before building, and leave a doc the next agent can run with.
<HARD-GATE>
Do NOT invoke any implementation skill, write any code, scaffold any project, or take any
implementation action until you have told your human partner what you intend and they have
approved it. This applies to EVERY task on EVERY path — the ceremony scales with the task;
the approval gate never does.
</HARD-GATE>
## Three paths (classify out loud before the first question)
Say the classification out loud — "this looks bounded, so I'll present a short design here
rather than write a spec" — so your human partner can override it:
- **Spike** — a feasibility question ("can we...", "is it possible...", "quick and dirty
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering/ai-brainstorm@sha256:93ab2ddc775fcdb0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260929.3986acb, 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 8 versions of this file, between Sep 1, 2026 and Sep 29, 2026, about one every 4 days.
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| git:20260929.3986acb latest | 2026-09-29 | 3986acb | 16,558 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260926.b0fd9cf | 2026-09-26 | b0fd9cf | 16,461 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260923.5be86d2 | 2026-09-23 | 5be86d2 | 15,336 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260916.a045fa9 | 2026-09-16 | a045fa9 | 13,874 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260911.82e56f8 | 2026-09-11 | 82e56f8 | 13,467 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260910.d021330 | 2026-09-10 | d021330 | 13,263 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.deb68d3 | 2026-09-01 | deb68d3 | 12,510 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.dca22e5 | 2026-09-01 | dca22e5 | 1,227 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 (16558 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
arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering · 62 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_j2w6t7ebjppg4nkp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering/ai-brainstorm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/93ab2ddc775fcdb0a4b840e7ea1c4609b58b5b0bb4ff18ba2b8a9d27953ffee0
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