nw-brainstorming SKILL.md skillA
nw-brainstorming from nwave-ai/nwave is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nwave-ai/nwave/nw-brainstorming@git:20260406.b65a761Pins git:20260406.b65a761 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nwave-ai/nwave
- Path
nWave/skills/nw-brainstorming/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260406.b65a761, committed Apr 6, 2026
- Size
- 5,391 bytes
- Repository stars
- 633
- License
- MIT
Structured divergent thinking techniques — HMW framing, SCAMPER, Crazy 8s mechanics, and option diversity guarantees. Enforces strict separation of generation and evaluation phases.
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
# Structured Brainstorming ## The Separation Principle — Foundational Rule Generation and evaluation CANNOT happen simultaneously. Osborn (1953): "You cannot get hot and cold water from the same faucet at the same time — you only get tepid water." **Consequence for the agent**: All options must be generated before any option is scored. Never filter or rank during generation. Self-censorship during generation degrades both the quality of ideas and the quality of evaluation. --- ## Phase 1: HMW Framing — Set Up the Ideation Space Before generating any options, reframe the problem as a "How Might We" question. **Rules for valid HMW questions**: - No embedded solutions: "How might we make onboarding faster?" ✓ vs "How might we add tooltips?" ✗ - Outcome-oriented, not feature-oriented - Broad enough for genuinely different approaches - Positive framing (not "How might we avoid X?") **Example transformation**: - Feature request: "Add a dashboard to show workflow status" - Bad HMW: "How might we build a better dashboard?" - Good HMW: "How might we give teams confidence that their workflow is progressing correctly?" …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nwave-ai/nwave/nw-brainstorming@sha256:688f7e9e20e81332The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260406.b65a761, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Apr 6, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- 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
nwave-ai/nwave · 633 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_suh7augubnorf7nv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nwave-ai/nwave/nw-brainstorming GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/688f7e9e20e813328a7dd6f6c543a7d5ca52ec45e7dd29e09815d514cff678aa
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.