// Use before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation.
| name | brainstorming |
| description | Use before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation. |
Help turn ideas into fully formed designs and specs through natural collaborative dialogue.
Start by understanding the current project context, then ask questions one at a time to refine the idea. Once you understand what you're building, present the design in small sections (200-300 words), checking after each section whether it looks right so far.
Understanding the idea:
Exploring approaches:
Presenting the design:
Documentation:
docs/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>-design.mdImplementation (if continuing):
Use when facing 2+ independent tasks that can be worked on without shared state or sequential dependencies
Use when working with Docker containers — debugging container failures, writing Dockerfiles, docker-compose for integration tests, image optimization, or deploying containerized applications
Use when you have a written implementation plan to execute in a separate session with review checkpoints
Use when you need parallel, read-only exploration with the agent tool (Scout fan-out)
Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes
Use when implementing any feature or bugfix, before writing implementation code