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Use when the user begins knowledge work with notes, a transcript, or a brain dump, asks for divergent ideas (mode: ideate), or wants options shown in a local browser (mode: visual).

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# Knowledge brainstorm

## Contract

| Field | Bound contract |
|---|---|
| Trigger | User begins nontrivial knowledge work with notes, a transcript, a brain dump, or a problem to think through (mode: dump); asks to brainstorm, asks what to build, or wants divergent ideas on a subject (mode: ideate); or faces a question genuinely clearer shown than told and approves a local browser view (mode: visual). |
| Authority | Reversible local: writes only `plans/brainstorm-{descriptive-name}.md`, `docs/ideation/<slug>.md` plus `<slug>.html` when `format:html` is given, `.odin/brainstorm/session-<24-hex>` session data, and OS-temp visual probe files; rollback is deleting those files and stopping the named managed process. No remote mutation. |
| Side effect | Reads prior knowledge in `docs/solutions/` and `plans/`; mode visual starts a local key-gated HTTP and WebSocket server with an idle timeout and retains its session directory. No other file, VCS, credential, paid, published, or remote change. |
| Done | The active mode's done state holds: dump (the user's language is structurally captured, prior context or its honest absence is shown, tensions and gaps are identified, at most three load-bearing questions are resolved, a reasoned direction is offered, and the origin file is written before plan); ideate (the ideation document records grounded survivors and a reason for every rejection, each candidate cites its basis, one reviewer adjudicated the complete pool, and the result ends at intent clarification); visual (the user saw the options, validated browser events merged with the terminal reply, and the server is stopped or left to its idle timeout). |

## Inputs

- `mode`: `dump` (default), `ideate`, or `visual`. Select from the request; when ambiguous, ask once.