brainstorm SKILL.md skillA
brainstorm from vanducng/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add vanducng/skills/brainstorm@v1.4.0Pins v1.4.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- vanducng/skills
- Path
skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.4.0, committed Sep 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 18, 2026
- Size
- 15,034 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Explore the solution space when the path isn't obvious - invent options, stress-test them, pick one. Use for architecture decisions, design tradeoffs, and when the user asks 'how should I approach X?'. Default produces a decision brief; pass `--quick` for chat-only, `--deep` for multi-round adversarial debate with full design doc. Do not use when want is unconfirmed (vd:interview), when the user says 'grill me' (vd:interview --grill), or when the deciding will not fit one session…
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 Brainstorm is **solution-space exploration**. You may end up recommending a known pattern, but the job is to surface paths the user hasn't considered, then converge. It does not own grilling - that is `vd:interview --grill`. After the user picks an option, grill remaining load-bearing decisions through that skill rather than inventing a second interview loop here. ## Hard rules 1. **No code, no scaffolding, no file edits to source.** Only the brief gets written. If the user pushes for implementation, point them at `vd:plan` or `vd:cook`. 2. **Minimum 3 genuinely divergent options.** If all your options share the same architectural assumption (e.g. all are "different ORMs"), you haven't diverged - invent one that violates the shared assumption (e.g. "no ORM, raw SQL"). 3. **Steel-man before strawman.** For each option write the *strongest* case first. If you can't argue for it convincingly, you don't understand it yet. 4. **Brutal honesty.** Name dealbreakers, hidden costs, ops burden, lock-in, hiring market, debugging pain. No marketing language. No symmetric "it's all tradeoffs" hedging - pick one. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add vanducng/skills/brainstorm@sha256:cae295b63f19cff4The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.4.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_sddor4slpyel7vqs)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 18, 2026 and Sep 11, 2026, about one every 6 days.
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| v1.4.0 latest | 2026-09-11 | 9e58ef3 | 15,034 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3.0 | 2026-08-23 | 87cd06b | 23,849 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3.0 | 2026-08-18 | 5259a7d | 23,707 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3.0 | 2026-08-18 | b285587 | 23,279 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3.0 | 2026-08-18 | 9ed9be9 | 22,868 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 (15034 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
vanducng/skills · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sddor4slpyel7vqs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vanducng/skills/brainstorm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cae295b63f19cff4fd881ab1464f85a1a1fd544ef76c140cc76fc9fcca53d70e
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.