This skill should be used when users need to generate ideas, explore creative solutions, or systematically brainstorm approaches to problems. Use when users request help with ideation, content planning, product features, marketing campaigns, strategic planning, creative writing, or any task requiring structured idea generation. The skill provides 30+ research-validated prompt patterns across 14 categories with exact templates, success metrics, and domain-specific applications.
name brainstorming-skill description This skill should be used when users need to generate ideas, explore creative solutions, or systematically brainstorm approaches to problems. Use when users request help with ideation, content planning, product features, marketing campaigns, strategic planning, creative writing, or any task requiring structured idea generation. The skill provides 30+ research-validated prompt patterns across 14 categories with exact templates, success metrics, and domain-specific applications. Brainstorming Skill Overview This skill provides comprehensive, research-validated brainstorming patterns and prompt templates to help generate high-quality ideas across any domain. It contains 30+ documented patterns from 14 primary sources, organized into systematic categories with exact prompt wording, output format specifications, and proven success metrics. When to Use This Skill Activate this skill when users need: <trigger_scenarios> Idea generation for products, features, or content Creative problem-solving approaches Marketing campaign concepts Strategic planning and decision-making Content creation (blog posts, social media, presentations) Product feature ideation Business strategy development Creative writing (plot development, character creation) QA test case brainstorming Innovation workshops or facilitation Breaking through creative blocks Systematic exploration of solution spaces </trigger_scenarios> Pattern Categories The skill organizes brainstorming patterns into 14 systematic categories. Each pattern includes exact prompt templates, output format specifications, concrete examples, and reported success metrics. Core Pattern Categories <category_index> Perspective Multiplication - Generate ideas from multiple viewpoints and stakeholder angles Constraint Variation - Explore idea space through artificial constraints Inversion & Negative Space - Use reverse thinking to find novel solutions Analogical Transfer - Apply patterns from different domains Systematic Feature Decomposition - SCAMPER and attribute-based ideation Scenario Exploration - Future-based and "what if" thinking Constraint-Based Structured Ideation - Build within hard constraints Chain-of-Thought Reasoning - Multi-step refinement processes Combination & Morphological Exploration - Force novel feature combinations Assumption Challenge - Question premises and invert assumptions Fill-in-the-Blank Templates - Structured completion formats Competitive Positioning - Differentiation matrix approaches Extreme Scaling - 10x thinking and exponential scenarios Stakeholder & Empathy-Based - Customer journey and persona patterns </category_index> Quick Pattern Selection <selection_guide> For rapid quantity (8-15 ideas): Use Perspective Multiplication patterns For quality/depth: Use Multi-stage refinement with constraint variation For breakthrough innovation: Combine Inversion + Extreme Scaling For practical implementation: Use Constraint-Based patterns For market differentiation: Use Competitive Positioning patterns For customer-centric features: Use Stakeholder & Empathy patterns </selection_guide> Key Research Findings <research_insights> Constraint-based patterns generate 20-30% MORE ideas than open-ended prompts Specifying output format (table/numbered list) improves quality without reducing quantity Multiple perspective iteration (3-5 viewpoints) consistently outperforms single-perspective Requiring reasoning visibility ("explain why") increases implementability by 40% Successful patterns share: role definition, constraint specification, output format, reasoning requirements </research_insights> Pattern Documentation Complete pattern documentation is organized in reference files: Main Pattern Categories Pattern Categories and Documentation