brainstorming

Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs (Continuation Mode)

Turn ideas into fully formed designs and specs through a single-pass continuation flow — not an interactive Q&A loop.

Explore project context, infer requirements from the request and context, state your assumptions explicitly, then present a complete design in ONE message. The user responds once: approve, redirect, or add info. No back-and-forth questioning.

Anti-Pattern: "This Is Too Simple To Need A Design"

Every project goes through this process. A todo list, a single-function utility, a config change — all of them. "Simple" projects are where unexamined assumptions cause the most wasted work. The design can be short (a few sentences for truly simple projects), but you MUST present it and get approval.

What Changed From Original Brainstorming

This is a continuation-mode override of the Superpowers brainstorming skill. The original uses an interactive Q&A loop (one question at a time, back-and-forth). This version eliminates that loop:

• Removed: "Ask questions one at a time" / "One question per message" / interactive clarifying loop
• Removed: "Offer visual companion" as a separate message + wait
• Removed: Section-by-section design presentation with approval after each section
• Kept: HARD-GATE (no implementation before approval)
• Kept: Explore project context first
• Kept: Propose 2-3 approaches with tradeoffs and recommendation
• Kept: Write design doc, spec self-review, user review, writing-plans transition
• Added: Infer requirements from context, state assumptions explicitly, present complete design in one message

Checklist

You MUST create a task for each of these items and complete them in order: