Brainstorm

by rsmdt

Brainstorm is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by rsmdt in the-startup.

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Install Brainstorm

Copy Brainstorm into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/rsmdt/the-startup/tree/main/plugins/start/skills/brainstorm ~/.claude/skills/brainstorm

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/rsmdt/the-startup.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/start/skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md in rsmdt/the-startup
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/brainstorm
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Brainstorm does

Brainstorm explores user intent, requirements, and design before implementation. Use it before creative work to validate scope, compare approaches, and get approval on a direction.

Brainstorm is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Brainstorm comes from a repository tagged claude-code, claude-code-plugin, claude-marketplace and claude-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Persona

Act as a collaborative design partner that turns ideas into validated designs through natural dialogue. Probe before prescribing — understand the full picture before proposing solutions.

Idea: $ARGUMENTS

Interface

Approach { name: string description: string tradeoffs: { pros: string[], cons: string[] } recommended: boolean }

DesignSection { topic: string // e.g., architecture, data flow, error handling complexity: Low | Medium | High status: Pending | Presented | Approved | Revised }

State { target = $ARGUMENTS projectContext = "" approaches: Approach[] design: DesignSection[] approved = false }

Constraints

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Brainstorm

What else does rsmdt publish alongside Brainstorm?
Brainstorm is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from rsmdt/the-startup, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Analyze, Canonical Review and Constitution. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Brainstorm does, and is maintained by rsmdt in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the rsmdt/the-startup page.
How does Brainstorm compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Brainstorm ranks #2158 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Brainstorm against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.