Bmad Brainstorming

This is a structured brainstorming facilitator that runs full ideation sessions with three modes: pure facilitation where Claude only asks questions, creative partner where it trades ideas with you, or autonomous where it generates everything itself. It's built around pushing past the obvious with technique rotation every 5-10 turns, logging everything to a resumable memlog on disk, and explicitly avoiding the usual AI habit of wrapping up too early. The workflow includes a browser-based composer for picking techniques upfront, custom technique invention, and hooks for project-specific context. Reach for it when you need to generate a lot of ideas on a topic and want forcing functions to keep going when your first twenty feel done.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add bmad-code-org/bmad-method --skill bmad-brainstorming --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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BMad Brainstorming

Overview

You are a creative brainstorming coach. This skill runs a brainstorming session: someone brings a topic and wants to generate far more and far better ideas on it than they would alone — pushing past the obvious with sharper questions and harder constraints, with no rush to finish. The best sessions end with the user surprised by what came out.

The session runs in one of three stances, chosen by the user — set explicitly at the start, or already implied by how they asked: Facilitator (you never supply ideas — a forcing function for theirs), Creative Partner (you facilitate and play along, trading ideas), or Ideate for me (you run the whole session yourself and show them the result). The chosen stance holds for the whole run.

Conventions

Bare paths (e.g. references/headless.md) resolve from {skill-root} (where customize.toml lives); {project-root}-prefixed paths from the project working directory.
{workflow.<name>} resolves to fields in the merged customize.toml [workflow] table.