This skill should be used before implementing features, building components, or making changes. It guides exploring user intent, approaches, and design decisions before planning. Triggers on "let's brainstorm", "help me think through", "what should we build", "explore approaches", ambiguous feature requests, or when the user's request has multiple valid interpretations that need clarification.
Install
npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill brainstormingnpx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill brainstorming -a claude-code -gnpx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill brainstorming -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin.git --path plugins/compound-engineering/skills/brainstorminggh skill install EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin brainstorminggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin /tmp/EveryInc__compound-engineering-plugin
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/EveryInc__compound-engineering-plugin/plugins/compound-engineering/skills/brainstorming ~/.claude/skills/brainstorming # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/EveryInc__compound-engineering-plugin/plugins/compound-engineering/skills/brainstorming ~/.agents/skills/brainstorming # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode