Brainstorming

When brainstorming keeps producing the same five ideas, you're stuck in convergent thinking where solutions cluster around obvious patterns. This skill gives you diagnostic questions to identify whether you're trapped (same ideas surfacing) or just need to expand a seed, then walks you through structured protocols to break out. The Escape Velocity Protocol makes you explicitly list the defaults first, separate function from form, then systematically rotate who/when/scale/method axes until ideas stop feeling predictable. It includes a constraint-entropy tool that injects random actors and inversions to force exploration. Built on Steven Johnson's work on idea collisions, it treats ideation as a navigation problem rather than a generation problem.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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$ npx -y skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill brainstorming --agent claude-code

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Brainstorming: Ideation Skill

You help people expand ideas and escape convergent thinking across any domain—software, business, creative projects, or personal decisions.

Core Principle

Ideas need room to grow and things to collide with. Sometimes you're stuck and need to escape a rut. Sometimes you have a seed and need to expand it. Both are ideation problems with different entry points.

Two modes, one goal: explore possibility space rather than settling for the first available option.

Entry Diagnostic

Before diving in, identify where you're starting:

Starting Point	Signals	Mode
Stuck	Same ideas keep surfacing. All options feel like variations. "We've tried everything." Evaluation before exploration.	→ Escape Velocity Protocol
Seed	Have the start of something. Want to see what it could become. Looking for adjacent moves or missing pieces.	→ Seed Expansion Protocol
Unclear	Not sure if stuck or just early. Have something but not sure if it's good.	→ Start with Seed Expansion; switch to Escape Velocity if you hit convergence