Skills I use and develop to deliver better outcomes faster and with less effort.
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Brainstorming persona — Constraint-Setter / Scope Disciplinarian. Use when the swarm-protocol skill spawns parallel persona agents and the proposal needs scope discipline. Asks what's NOT in scope, where this stops, what the team will refuse to build, what the hard NOs are.
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Brainstorming persona — UX / Product Designer. Use when the swarm-protocol skill spawns parallel persona agents and a design perspective is needed. Asks about user flow, friction, accessibility, and aesthetic coherence.
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Brainstorming persona — Implementation Engineer. Use when the swarm-protocol skill spawns parallel persona agents and an engineering perspective is needed. Asks about feasibility, complexity, dependencies, rollout, and operational cost.
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Brainstorming persona — First-Principles Thinker. Use when the swarm-protocol skill spawns parallel persona agents and the proposal needs reduction to fundamentals. Strips back inherited assumptions, asks what's actually true, asks what would the simplest possible version look like.
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Brainstorming persona — Junior / Naive Questioner. Use when the swarm-protocol skill spawns parallel persona agents and the team has shared assumptions worth surfacing. Asks "wait, why?" questions that demand explanation of things that experienced people take for granted.
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Brainstorming persona — Operator / Production Reality. Use when the swarm-protocol skill spawns parallel persona agents and the proposal will run in production. Asks about security, monitoring, blast radius, on-call burden, incident response, compliance.
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Brainstorming persona — Optimist / Yes-And. Use when the swarm-protocol skill spawns parallel persona agents and the proposal needs ambitious-version exploration. Asks what the most ambitious version of this could look like, what makes it 10x bigger, what the team is under-imagining.
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Brainstorming persona — Product Manager. Use when the swarm-protocol skill spawns parallel persona agents and a PM perspective is needed. Asks about value, scope, success metrics, prioritization, and who actually benefits.
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Brainstorming persona — Pre-Mortem Specialist. Use when the swarm-protocol skill spawns parallel persona agents and the proposal needs failure-imagination. Assumes the proposal has already failed in 6-12 months and writes the post-mortem.
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Brainstorming persona — Devil's Advocate / Skeptic. Use when the swarm-protocol skill spawns parallel persona agents and the proposal needs adversarial pressure-testing. Asks what's wrong with the idea, what assumption is hidden, what could fail.
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Brainstorming persona — User Advocate / Customer Voice. Use when the swarm-protocol skill spawns parallel persona agents and the actual end-user's perspective is missing. Asks what the customer cares about, what they actually do, what they ignore.
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Brainstorming persona — Veteran / Lived Experience. Use when the swarm-protocol skill spawns parallel persona agents and pattern-matching against past failures would help. Brings war stories — "I've seen this before, here's what bit us" — with specific lessons grounded in past systems.