Brainstorming

Brainstorming is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by coco-research in coco.

218 stars11 forkson coco-research/cocoAdded 2026/09/04Repository updated 2026/09/03

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Install Brainstorming

Copy Brainstorming 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/coco-research/coco/tree/main/skills/brainstorming ~/.claude/skills/brainstorming

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/coco-research/coco.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md in coco-research/coco
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/brainstorming
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2970 skills

What Brainstorming does

Brainstorming helps turn an idea into a design and spec before implementation. Use it to clarify requirements, explore approaches, and get approval before any code is written.

Brainstorming is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Brainstorming comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agents-md, ai, ai-agents and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs

Help turn ideas into fully formed designs and specs through natural collaborative dialogue.

Announce at start: "Brainstorming skill activated."

Start by understanding the current project context, then ask questions one at a time to refine the idea. Once you understand what you're building, present the design and get user approval.

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

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

Frequently asked about Brainstorming

What else does coco-research publish alongside Brainstorming?
Brainstorming is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from coco-research/coco, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Marketing Videos, AI Product Development and API Design Principles. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Brainstorming does, and is maintained by coco-research in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the coco-research/coco page.
How does Brainstorming compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Brainstorming ranks #2596 by stars among the 2970 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 Brainstorming against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.