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brainstorm-internal is agent-read markdown (skill) from llopresto87/cypress: The divergence technique CYPRESS applies to itself, with no user in the loop — generating genuinely distinct options against evidence already in hand, stating what would have to be true for each, and naming the one fact that would kill each. Use when a choice is the session's to make and the user has nothing to add to it - filling grill.md §7, assembling an ADR's rejected alternatives, choosing between two implementations that satisfy the same contract, or deciding how to sequence work. The user.

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What the file says

# brainstorm-internal

Some choices are not the user's. Which of two implementations satisfies a
contract better, how to sequence four increments, what an ADR should record as
rejected — the user has nothing to add, and asking costs a turn and gets "you
decide". This is the divergence technique for those.

**There is no user here.** No questions, no pacing, no cap, no confirmation to
wait for. The nine-question machinery in
`docs/graph/skills/brainstorm-socratic.md` is not a stricter version of this
skill — it is the other mode, and it does not apply when there is nobody to ask.
The exit is a written options set, not an agreement.

## The failure this exists to prevent

**A session brainstorming against itself generates one real option and two
strawmen.** It has already, quietly, decided; what it produces is the decision
plus two alternatives shaped to lose. The output looks exactly like genuine
divergence — three options, a comparison, a pick — and an ADR built on it
records rejected alternatives nobody ever considered.

Every rule below exists because of that one failure.

## The method

1. **Write the decision as a question with at least two answers you could
…

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llopresto87/cypress · 43 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main

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