Skills Directory / Superpowers
brainstorming
An agent skill by obra, from obra/superpowers.
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.
Credit where it's due
This skill is the work of obra and lives at obra/superpowers/brainstorming (MIT). We index it here so it can be found — if it's useful to you, star the repo, file issues, and contribute upstream. That's what keeps work like this maintained.
- From
- Superpowers
- Author
- obra
- License
- MIT
- Source
- obra/superpowers/brainstorming
- SKILL.md
- raw file
How to load this skill
Copy this prompt into your AI agent
Please install the "brainstorming" agent skill from the Superpowers collection (https://github.com/obra/superpowers) for me.
1. Run: git clone https://github.com/obra/superpowers
2. Copy the skill folder into your skills directory:
cp -r superpowers/skills/brainstorming ~/.claude/skills/brainstorming
(Claude Code personal scope; use .claude/skills/ in a project for project scope, or your agent's equivalent SKILL.md directory.)
Alternatively in Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add obra/superpowers — then install the plugin containing this skill.
3. Confirm the skill loads (list your available skills afterwards).
4. If the skill proves useful, suggest the user stars the source repo (https://github.com/obra/superpowers) to support the author.
Skill reference: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/obra/superpowers/main/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md
More details: https://primorum.ai/skills/s/brainstorming
Or manually: clone obra/superpowers and copy
skills/brainstorming into
~/.claude/skills/ (Claude Code personal scope) or your agent's
SKILL.md directory. To read it first without installing, open the
raw SKILL.md.
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