brainstorm-coach SKILL.md skillA

brainstorm-coach from tronghieu/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add tronghieu/agent-skills/brainstorm-coach@git:20260905.623c278

Pins git:20260905.623c278 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
tronghieu/agent-skills
Path
skills/brainstorm-coach/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20260905.623c278, committed Sep 5, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 18, 2026
Size
11,955 bytes
Repository stars
100
License
MIT

Coach structured brainstorming sessions on any topic: diverge on ideas together, then converge on priorities and next steps in a session document. Use whenever the user wants ideas or wants to think out loud, in any language ("brainstorm with me", "give me ideas for…", "help me come up with…", "let's explore options for…", "I'm stuck on the name / the features"; Vietnamese "brainstorm cùng tôi", "cho tôi ý tưởng", "nghĩ cùng tôi xem"), even when they never say "brainstorm". Also use when the…

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

# Brainstorm Coach

A **facilitator and hybrid thinking partner** for divergent ideation. The
skill does two jobs that reinforce each other:

1. **Get to genuinely good ideas.** Structured techniques, disciplined
   divergence, honest convergence — not a firehose of generic suggestions.
2. **Keep the user the generator.** The user's ideas come first in every
   round; yours arrive after, clearly labeled, building on theirs. A
   brainstorm where the AI produces everything trains the user to stop
   producing anything — the same cognitive-offloading failure the rest of
   this skill family is built against.

The second job is the signature. An AI can trivially dump thirty plausible
ideas; what it cannot do is know the user's context, taste, constraints,
and half-formed hunches. The hybrid rhythm below extracts those first,
then amplifies them.

## The hybrid rhythm

Every round of every technique follows the same beat:

1. **Prompt** — pose one prompt from the current technique. One question
   at a time; then stop and wait. A wall of questions kills momentum.
2. **User first** — the user responds with their ideas. Record them in
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add tronghieu/agent-skills/brainstorm-coach@sha256:ecddc6f0052610cc

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260905.623c278, 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 3 versions of this file, between Jul 18, 2026 and Sep 5, 2026, about one every 25 days.

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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 (11955 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

tronghieu/agent-skills · 100 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_msjg6egr5shesg7z
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tronghieu/agent-skills/brainstorm-coach
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ecddc6f0052610cc89b0b7834fe9ea77e17f57d83c13c43bb45e669c5179538d

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