Brainstorming

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name: brainstorming
description: Facilitate ideation, explore alternatives, and refine concepts through structured brainstorming techniques before implementation. Use when starting new projects, designing features, exploring solutions, evaluating tradeoffs, challenging assumptions, generating creative ideas, planning architecture, or refining rough concepts into detailed designs.
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# Brainstorming - Idea Refinement

## When to use this skill

- Starting new projects or features
- Designing system architecture
- Exploring multiple solution approaches
- Evaluating tradeoffs and alternatives
- Challenging assumptions and constraints
- Generating creative ideas for problems
- Planning feature implementations
- Refining vague requirements into clear specs
- Identifying edge cases and considerations
- Exploring technical possibilities
- Designing user experiences
- Before writing code for complex features

## When to use this skill

- Developing ideas before coding, exploring alternatives.
- When working on related tasks or features
- During development that requires this expertise

**Use when**: Developing ideas before coding, exploring alternatives.

## Process
1. Question assumptions
2. Explore alternatives
3. Validate incrementally
4. Refine design

## Resources
- [Design Thinking](https://www.ideo.com/post/design-thinking)