ia-brainstorming SKILL.md skillA
ia-brainstorming from iliaal/whetstone is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add iliaal/whetstone/ia-brainstorming@git:20261019.2df60b8Pins git:20261019.2df60b8 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- iliaal/whetstone
- Path
plugins/whetstone/skills/ia-brainstorming/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261019.2df60b8, committed Oct 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 7, 2026
- Size
- 5,775 bytes
- Repository stars
- 35
- License
- MIT
Pre-implementation exploration: deep interview, approach comparison, design doc. Use when exploring a vague feature idea, clarifying ambiguous requirements, or comparing approaches before coding. For the full workflow, use the ia-brainstorm command (Claude Code).
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
# Brainstorming Clarify what to build before planning how to implement it. ## Scope and interaction Produce exploration and a design, not implementation. Obtain approval before interactive handoff. Enable headless mode only when the caller explicitly delegates non-interactive execution and its decision scope; `disable-model-invocation` is selection metadata, not approval. Replace headless confirmations with stated conservative assumptions. Return material decisions without a safe authorized default unresolved. Never label inferred choices user-approved or infer implementation, commit, or publication authority from this skill. Ask open interview questions as plain chat text and end the turn to wait for the answer; a menu anchors the user to the agent's framing. Use a blocking menu tool only for menu-shaped choices with two to four real options (the Blindspot Pass, approach selection, the skip-to-planning offer, approvals, or a stuck or "you pick" user): AskUserQuestion in Claude Code (load via ToolSearch `select:AskUserQuestion` when needed), request_user_input in Codex where supported, otherwise numbered options in chat with the pending decision named on the first line. Return …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add iliaal/whetstone/ia-brainstorming@sha256:15b75e82ddafc290The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.2df60b8, 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_ubf4biwbxzr3hgx3)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Jul 7, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 17 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261019.2df60b8 latest | 2026-10-19 | 2df60b8 | 5,775 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260907.228ec83 | 2026-09-07 | 228ec83 | 5,430 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260829.7e8660c | 2026-08-29 | 7e8660c | 18,406 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260727.9017f06 | 2026-07-27 | 9017f06 | 18,127 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260718.af8b79c | 2026-07-18 | af8b79c | 18,005 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260711.15cf946 | 2026-07-11 | 15cf946 | 16,807 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260707.2c20a75 | 2026-07-07 | 2c20a75 | 16,746 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 (5775 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
iliaal/whetstone · 35 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ubf4biwbxzr3hgx3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iliaal/whetstone/ia-brainstorming GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/15b75e82ddafc2908ae441d3ba1f5ed347e7401b4eb429ec7143b1c32568bf67
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.