brainstorming

This skill should be used before implementing features, building components, or making changes. It guides exploring user intent, approaches, and design decisions before planning. Triggers on "let's brainstorm", "help me think through", "what should we build", "explore approaches", ambiguous feature requests, or when the user's request has multiple valid interpretations that need clarification.

1.34x

Quality

79%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

85%

1.34x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

Securityby

Passed

No known issues

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Evaluation results

91%

57%

Product Search for Growing E-Commerce Platform

Design doc generation and approach proposals

Criteria

Without context

With context

Correct file location

100%

Filename format

100%

Frontmatter date

100%

Frontmatter topic kebab-case

100%

Required sections present

20%

70%

Next Steps /ce:plan

100%

2-3 approaches proposed

100%

Approach Pros and Cons

100%

Best when statement

100%

Recommendation with reasoning

100%

YAGNI simplicity

80%

100%

Handoff options

40%

65%

Explore a Notification Feature Request

Question technique and brainstorm exploration process

Criteria

Without context

With context

One question at a time

100%

66%

Multiple-choice format

100%

Broad-to-narrow ordering

90%

80%

Explicit assumption validation

41%

58%

Success criteria question

100%

No implementation details in Phase 1

33%

25%

Section word count

100%

87%

Validation checkpoint

No assumption made silently

71%

100%

Triage Two Developer Requests

Requirement clarity assessment and YAGNI discipline

Criteria

Without context

With context

Clear-req case identified

100%

Proceed-to-planning suggestion

100%

No full brainstorm for clear req

90%

100%

Ambiguous-req case identified

100%

Brainstorm initiated for vague req

100%

Clarity signals referenced

100%

YAGNI pushback

100%

Simpler approach favored

100%

No hypothetical future design

100%

Repository: EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin
Commit: 269fa55

Evaluated: about 1 month ago
Agent: Claude Code
Model: Claude Sonnet 4.6

Table of Contents

Product Search for Growing E-Commerce Platform Explore a Notification Feature Request Triage Two Developer Requests

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