Individual skill
brainstorming
Run a real brainstorm — divergent generation without judgment, then convergent selection with explicit criteria — instead of listing ten obvious ideas and calling it creativity. Use when asked to brainstorm, generate ideas or options, explore a solution space, or name something. Produces a genuinely wide option set (including the weird tail), then a shortlist selected against named criteria with the rejects preserved.
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# Brainstorming Skill
Asked to brainstorm, a model produces ten reasonable ideas that any competent person would list — which is retrieval, not ideation. Real brainstorming has two phases with a wall between them: **diverge** (volume, no judgment, deliberately weird) then **converge** (explicit criteria, honest scoring). This skill enforces the wall.
## What This Skill Produces
- A **divergent set**: 20-40 ideas spanning distinct strategies, not ten variants of one idea
- A **convergent shortlist**: 3-5 selected against criteria named *before* scoring
- The **reject ledger**: what was set aside and why — half the value, always preserved
## Required Inputs
Ask for (if not already provided):
- **The problem or prompt**, and what an idea must accomplish to count