brainstorming

Use a structured brainstorming process that clarifies purpose, users, constraints, and success criteria one question at a time. Confirm an understanding summary with explicit assumptions before exploring design approaches, and document every decision in a decision log.

An understanding lock is a hard gate where the designer summarizes what is being built, why, for whom, key constraints, and non-goals, then waits for explicit user confirmation. No design work proceeds until the summary is approved.

No. The skill explicitly forbids implementation, coding, or behavior modification while active. It operates purely as a design facilitator and only hands off to implementation after the design is documented and validated.

Use the multi-agent-brainstorming skill when the design is high-impact, high-risk, or requires elevated confidence. The standard brainstorming skill hands off the finalized design and decision log to it in those cases.

Brainstorming ends only when the understanding lock is confirmed, at least one design approach is explicitly accepted, major assumptions are documented, key risks are acknowledged, and the decision log is complete.