Category: Productivity

Brainstorming

A core Superpowers skill that refines and approves a design through questions and alternatives before any code is written.

Works with

Gates code and scaffolding until a design is approved
Walks nine steps: context, questions, approaches, design, spec, review loop, sign-off
Offers a visual companion for mockups and diagrams
Hands off to the writing-plans skill for an implementation plan

Great for stopping an agent from coding before it actually understands the requirements.

Run the command below in your terminal. Pick the agents you use (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, and more) and it installs into the right folder.

npx skills add https://github.com/obra/superpowers --skill brainstorming

To install manually, download the brainstorming skill folder from the GitHub repository and copy it into your agent's skills folder, such as ~/.claude/skills/ or .cursor/skills/.
Ask your agent for a related task and the skill is used automatically.

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