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brainstorming · nexu-io — Claude Code skill: what it does, how to install

Turns a rough idea into a full design through structured questioning and alternative exploration. Useful early in concept work.

Install into Claude Code · Skills CLI (Vercel) All methods and platforms ↓ 
npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill brainstorming -a claude-code
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What brainstorming does

The skill asks clarifying questions and proposes alternative directions, turning a vague idea into a shaped design. It's meant for the early stage of concept work, before a clear brief exists. The content is curated from @obra's work and sits in the creative-direction category.

This OpenDesign catalogue entry works as a pointer: it lets the agent notice the skill during planning and call it by the name brainstorming or by one of the trigger phrases — brainstorm, ideation, concept exploration, rough ideas, design alternatives. The actual scripts, assets and reference material live in the obra/superpowers repository, and running the full upstream workflow means installing that bundle into your active agent's skills directory separately.

Skip that step and the agent can still react to a trigger, but it won't have the original assets the upstream workflow relies on.

What it helps with

  • turn a rough idea into a shaped design brief
  • ask structured clarifying questions about a concept
  • explore alternative design directions
  • kick off ideation at the start of a feature
  • trigger the right workflow with a keyword phrase

Example prompts for the agent

  • Help me brainstorm the onboarding design
  • Run ideation for the new settings screen
  • Explore design alternatives for the product card

How to install brainstorming

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill brainstorming -a claude-code

2Manually: put the files in place

~/.claude/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md

Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/brainstorming/

From the same set106

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Questions about brainstorming

How do I install brainstorming in Claude Code?

Run npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill brainstorming -a claude-code — the skill lands at ~/.claude/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md.

What does brainstorming do?

It turns a rough idea into a shaped design through structured questioning and alternative exploration, useful early in concept work.

How does this entry differ from the original obra/superpowers skill?

This OpenDesign entry is a pointer to the original: it gives the agent a trigger to call, while the scripts and reference material come from the obra/superpowers upstream repository, which needs a separate install.

Source text

SKILL.md · Apache-2.0 
---
name: brainstorming
description: |
  Transform rough ideas into fully-formed designs through structured questioning and alternative exploration. Useful early in concept work.
triggers:
  - "brainstorm"
  - "ideation"
  - "concept exploration"
  - "rough ideas"
  - "design alternatives"
od:
  mode: design-system
  category: creative-direction
  upstream: "https://github.com/obra/superpowers"
---

# brainstorming

> Curated from @obra.

## What it does

Transform rough ideas into fully-formed designs through structured questioning and alternative exploration. Useful early in concept work.

## Source

- Upstream: https://github.com/obra/superpowers
- Category: `creative-direction`

## How to use

This catalogue entry advertises the skill in OpenDesign so the agent
discovers it during planning. To run the full upstream workflow with
its original assets, scripts, and references, install the upstream
bundle into your active agent's skills directory:

```bash
# Inspect the upstream README for exact paths
open https://github.com/obra/superpowers
```

Then ask the agent to invoke this skill by name (`brainstorming`) or with
one of the trigger phrases listed in this skill's frontmatter.

© nexu-io · Apache-2.0 · nexu-io/open-design

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