brainstorm SKILL.md skillA
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brainstorm from byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/brainstorm@git:20260924.a457823Pins git:20260924.a457823 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit
- Path
kit/skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260924.a457823, committed Sep 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 24, 2026
- Size
- 3,149 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- MIT
Divergent discovery BEFORE planning: turn a fuzzy ask into 2–4 scoped options + named unknowns, pick a direction, hand to spec-planning. Bounded; converges to explicit choices, never guesses.
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 — diverge before you converge
<!-- routing-eval reads the next line; why it sits in the body: AGENT_TEMPLATE.md -->
Trigger phrases: "brainstorm", "explore options", "not sure what we want", "help me scope", "ideate"
## When
The ask is **under-defined**: the goal, the users, or the shape of the solution aren't clear yet, so jumping
straight to `spec-planning` would just plan the wrong thing. This is the front-end of planning, not a
replacement — brainstorm *diverges* (widens the option space), spec-planning *converges* (breaks the chosen
option into tasks). If scope is already clear, skip this and go straight to [[spec-planning]].
## The loop
1. **Frame the real problem** — restate the request as the underlying need in one sentence ("the user wants
X so that Y"). Separate the stated solution from the goal; often the solution is negotiable, the goal isn't.
2. **Diverge — generate distinct directions.** Produce **2–4 genuinely different** approaches, not variations
of one. For each: the core idea, who it serves, the main trade-off. Include a deliberately cheap/minimal
option (fight gold-plating early).
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/brainstorm@sha256:ace6ed66d24b2c57The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260924.a457823, 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_w3vacypyagnknqx7)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Sep 24, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260924.a457823 latest | 2026-09-24 | a457823 | 3,149 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.ad81b1a | 2026-09-24 | ad81b1a | 3,343 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 (3149 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
byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit · 25 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_w3vacypyagnknqx7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/brainstorm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ace6ed66d24b2c5726e5719fc614460e8fbff4d2b6fa0746a24e0f68896da9bb
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.
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