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octocode-brainstorming
Use when an idea needs disciplined exploration before building: generate options, test whether it is worth building, map adjacent solutions, challenge assumptions, narrow scope, or choose Build RFC / Prototype / Narrow / Park — even if nobody said brainstorm. Already decided to implement a specific plan → skip.
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# Octocode Brainstorming
Evidence-grounded idea exploration.
Flow: `FRAME → DIVERGE → RESEARCH → CROSS-POLLINATE → STRESS-TEST → SYNTHESIZE → DECIDE`.
## Modes and lobby rules
- Generate: create 6–10 angles, then validate the best 2–3. Validate: produce 2–4 reframings, then investigate deeply. Map: expand adjacent terms and landscape existing solutions.
- Capture framing before judging. When direction, audience, or research surface is unclear, ask the user to choose before deep research.
- Declare a Surface Plan: mark local, top resources/web, and repository/package/code evidence active or skipped with a reason.
- Treat snippets and summaries as leads; cite exact sources or mark claims weak. Track `claim → source → confidence → next query`.
- Cross-pollinate across each active surface and run Critical Architect, Visionary Entrepreneur, and Product lenses before verdict.
- Recall potentially useful context first and validate it; capture only durable lessons that survive rebuttal.
## Hard gate
Stop, recommend one option, and wait when the idea spans three unrelated spaces, active evidence stays thin after synonym retries, evidence materially conflicts, or delegation would exceed five workers.