brainstorming SKILL.md skillA

brainstorming from brandonfla/bearpaws is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add brandonfla/bearpaws/brainstorming@git:20260929.1297711

Pins git:20260929.1297711 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
brandonfla/bearpaws
Path
skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20260929.1297711, committed Sep 29, 2026
First version recorded
May 1, 2026
Size
4,563 bytes
Repository stars
4
License
MIT

Use when about to create or change features, components, or behavior and the design has not been agreed yet.

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

<skill>

  <purpose>
    Turn ideas into fully formed designs through collaborative dialogue. Understand the project context, ask questions one at a time, present the design, get user approval.
  </purpose>

  <triggers>
    <rule>Use before any creative work: new features, components, modifications.</rule>
    <rule>Use before any implementation skill — brainstorming produces the spec.</rule>
    <rule>If the prompt has a project context (existing codebase) and you haven't onboarded this session, invoke `bp:onboarding-to-a-project` first. Standard flow: onboarding identifies key files & stack → brainstorming designs against those conventions → implementation. For purely abstract design questions with no specific project, brainstorming is the entry point.</rule>
  </triggers>

  <gate name="no-implementation">
    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.
  </gate>

  <antipattern>
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add brandonfla/bearpaws/brainstorming@sha256:68f208306f75dd2a

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260929.1297711, 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 5 versions of this file, between May 1, 2026 and Sep 29, 2026, about one every 38 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260929.1297711 latest2026-09-29 1297711 4,563 BA view · diff
git:20260501.88e4ec82026-05-01 88e4ec8 5,003 BA view · diff
git:20260501.92c6b1d2026-05-01 92c6b1d 10,628 BA view · diff
git:20260501.de635682026-05-01 de63568 4,623 BA view · diff
git:20260501.402017b2026-05-01 402017b 10,634 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4563 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

GitHub

brandonfla/bearpaws · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jc37bukyzaorwlw3
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=brandonfla/bearpaws/brainstorming
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/68f208306f75dd2a21f131f347f39fb328abe3d13ef29e7881961989f805d8c3

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.

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