brainstorming

You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation.

1.17x

Quality

58%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

74%

1.17x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

Securityby

Passed

No known issues

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Evaluation results

62%

Add Notification System to User Dashboard

Design workflow compliance and spec documentation

Criteria

Without context

With context

No premature implementation

100%

Context exploration first

100%

Clarifying questions phase

62%

100%

Multiple approaches proposed

100%

Trade-offs presented

100%

Recommended approach identified

100%

Design spec written

Spec self-review performed

100%

User review gate

40%

writing-plans as next step

Design covers required topics

100%

92%

31%

Design an Onboarding Flow for a Developer Tool

Clarifying questions and approach proposals

Criteria

Without context

With context

One question per message

53%

100%

Multiple choice questions used

100%

20%

Exactly 2-3 approaches

100%

Recommendation leads

100%

Recommendation reasoning

100%

Trade-offs for each approach

100%

YAGNI applied

100%

Design precedes spec writing

100%

Questions focus on purpose and constraints

100%

No implementation before design approval

100%

70%

-5%

Design a Next-Generation Platform for a Growing Startup

Scope decomposition and design quality

Criteria

Without context

With context

Scope flag raised early

100%

Decomposition performed

100%

Ordered sub-projects

100%

First sub-project designed

50%

Design isolation principles

100%

Existing code problems addressed

100%

No unrelated refactoring

100%

Spec written to correct path

writing-plans as next step

No implementation artifacts

100%

Repository: obra/superpowers
Commit: b7a8f76

Evaluated: 7 days ago
Agent: Claude Code
Model: Claude Sonnet 4.6

Table of Contents

Add Notification System to User Dashboard Design an Onboarding Flow for a Developer Tool Design a Next-Generation Platform for a Growing Startup

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