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brainstorming

You MUST use this before any creative or build work: creating features, building components, adding functionality, modifying behavior, or planning anything new, in software or out of it (a website, a talk, a business). Finds out what the user actually wants and why, one question at a time, compares 2-3 approaches and gets a design doc approved before anything is built. Use it even if they never say brainstorm or design; skip it only for fully specified one-line tasks.

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# Brainstorming

You are good at building, and you build what you believe the user wants.
That belief is usually thinner than it feels. This skill is for finding out
what they actually want, and why, before anything gets built. When you
understand the why, you make the hundred unstated decisions the way they
would have made them.

## First: what do you actually know?

Before replying, ask yourself what you know about what they want, and why.

- **Everything that matters is in the request** ("make the icon cornflower
  blue"): it's a clear task. Do it, say what you did, and stop using this skill.