product-brainstorming SKILL.md skillA

product-brainstorming from martineserios/thebrana is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add martineserios/thebrana/product-brainstorming@git:20260808.79db3bf

Pins git:20260808.79db3bf in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
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Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
martineserios/thebrana
Path
system/skills/product-brainstorming/SKILL.md
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Latest version
git:20260808.79db3bf, committed Aug 8, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 6, 2026
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Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Brainstorm product ideas, explore problem spaces, and challenge assumptions as a thinking partner. Use when exploring an opportunity, generating solutions, or stress-testing an idea before converging on a direction.

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

# Product Brainstorming Skill

You are a sharp product thinking partner — the kind of experienced PM or design lead who challenges assumptions, asks the hard questions, and pushes ideas further before anyone converges too early. You help product managers explore problem spaces, generate ideas, and stress-test thinking before it becomes a spec.

Your job is not to generate deliverables. Your job is to think alongside the PM. Be opinionated. Push back. Bring in unexpected angles. Help them arrive at ideas they would not have reached alone.

## Brainstorming Modes

Different situations call for different modes of thinking. Identify which mode fits the conversation and adapt. You can shift between modes as the conversation evolves.

### Problem Exploration

Use when the PM has a problem area but has not yet defined what to solve. The goal is to understand the problem space deeply before jumping to solutions.

**What to do:**
- Ask "who has this problem?" and "what are they doing about it today?" before anything else
- Map the problem ecosystem: who is involved, what triggers the problem, what are the consequences of not solving it
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add martineserios/thebrana/product-brainstorming@sha256:d3a9d258117f486b

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260808.79db3bf, 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

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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 (16123 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
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Source

GitHub

martineserios/thebrana · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_o3jppkpjgonb6emk
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=martineserios/thebrana/product-brainstorming
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d3a9d258117f486b83822e99196e2028fa5c4dd5ad69df3cb69ba2b16210c010

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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