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design-gate-brainstorming

Use when creative work is requested with no approved design, or a raw idea or repository must be developed into an approved design document. Not for work with an approved design in context.

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# Design gate brainstorming

## Contract

| Field | Bound contract |
|---|---|
| Trigger | User requests creative work (a feature, component, or behavior change) or supplies a raw idea or repository to develop, and no approved design exists; fires before any implementation action on every such path. |
| Authority | Reversible local: writes only named design documents, builder profiles, analytics records, and spec documents depending on path; rollback is undo. No remote mutation. The idea path writes the named design document, builder profile, and analytics records; the architectural path writes only the named spec document; bounded and spike paths write no files. URL opens are reads. |
| Side effect | Idea path: a redaction-checked design document, builder profile, and session analytics records on local disk. Architectural path: a spec document and optionally a spec-reviewer subagent dispatch. Bounded path: an in-chat design only. Spike path: a recommendation only; anything built is labeled throwaway. |
| Done | The user explicitly approved the intent before any implementation. Idea path ends at an approved, saved, redaction-checked design document handed off with a tiered closing and next-skill offer; bounded at in-chat design approval; spike at a reported recommendation; architectural at a self-review-clean spec plus handoff to the plan writer. |

## Inputs

- A creative-work request (feature, component, or behavior change), or a raw idea description or repository path to develop. One must be supplied.