bmad-brainstorming

Facilitate a brainstorming session using diverse creative techniques. Use when the user says 'help me brainstorm' or 'help me ideate'

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A mature, well-architected skill body: highly actionable with concrete CLI invocations, a clearly sequenced multi-mode workflow, and exemplary one-level-deep progressive disclosure. Only minor tightening of prose and a couple of implicit checkpoints keep it from maxing every dimension.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is dense and assumes Claude's competence — it never explains what brainstorming is or how libraries work — but a few long compound sentences in the Activation and Framing sections could be tightened, placing it just below the fully-lean level 5.	4 / 5
Actionability	Provides copy-paste-ready, fully-specified commands with exact flags and paths (e.g. 'uv run {project-root}/_bmad/scripts/memlog.py init --workspace ... --field topic=...'), with placeholders documented in the Conventions section, matching the executable-and-specific level-5 anchor.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	The run is clearly sequenced (numbered Activation steps, then Run a Session / Choosing Techniques / Converging / Wrap-Up) with explicit failure-handling on config resolution, but a few validation checkpoints are implicit rather than stated, so it sits below the explicit-validate level 5.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	SKILL.md is a clear overview that links out one level deep to well-signaled bundle files (references/mode-*.md, converge.md, finalize.md, headless.md, resume.md; assets/brain-selector.html; scripts/brain.py), all of which exist on disk, matching the well-organized level-5 anchor.	5 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

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A well-formed description that pairs a clear capability statement with an explicit, natural-language trigger clause. It is concise and free of fluff, with only minor room to broaden trigger synonyms and enumerate more concrete actions.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain and one compound action ('Facilitate a brainstorming session using diverse creative techniques'), but does not enumerate multiple distinct capabilities, matching the '1-2 concrete actions, not comprehensive' anchor rather than the several-action level 4.	3 / 5
Completeness	It clearly answers both 'what' (facilitate a brainstorming session using diverse creative techniques) and 'when' with an explicit 'Use when...' clause containing concrete trigger phrases, matching the level-5 anchor.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Includes two natural phrases users would actually say ('help me brainstorm', 'help me ideate'), giving good keyword coverage, though a few synonyms (e.g. 'ideas', 'spitball', 'think tank') are missing so it stops short of comprehensive level 5.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Brainstorming is a clear niche with distinct triggers, but it carries minor overlap risk with general ideation/creative-planning skills, so it sits at 'mostly distinct' rather than the minimal-conflict level 5.	4 / 5
	Total	16 / 20 Passed

Validation

93%

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Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

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Criteria	Description	Result
referenced_paths_exist	Referenced path issues: 1 missing	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD
Path: src/core-skills/bmad-brainstorming/SKILL.md
Commit: 05bfbd4

Reviewed: 15 days ago

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