kiln

Kiln pipeline conductor. Launches and resumes the 8-step software-creation pipeline (onboarding, brainstorm, gauge, research, architecture, build, validate, report). Use when the operator runs /kiln-fire, asks to build software with Kiln, or wants to resume a Kiln run. Make sure to use this skill whenever the operator mentions building, forging, or shipping an app with Kiln, or resuming a .kiln/ run, even without the /kiln-fire command. Drives onboarding inline, brainstorm via an interactive teammate, and the autonomous stages via native workflows.

Da Vinci's brainstorm facilitation playbook for Kiln — structured ideation across 62 techniques / 10 categories and 50 elicitation methods, three depth tiers (light/standard/deep) plus an express intake, domain-pivot + stimulus-injection anti-bias, a mandatory style probe, and a clarify pass. The facilitator never authors VISION.md; every turn is captured into the append-only session ledger (.kiln/docs/brainstorm-ledger.jsonl), which a fresh-context compiler alone turns into VISION.md. Loaded by the kiln:the-creator agent during the brainstorm stage; not operator-invoked directly.