Brainstorming
Skill ActiveYou MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation.
To ensure that creative work is preceded by thorough exploration of user intent, requirements, and design, preventing wasted effort on unexamined assumptions.
Features
- Guides user through design and requirement exploration.
- Structures creative work before implementation.
- Proposes alternative approaches with trade-offs.
- Ensures user approval of design before proceeding.
- Saves validated designs as specification documents.
Use Cases
- Starting any new creative work, from features to minor component changes.
- Ensuring clarity on project scope and success criteria before coding.
- Decomposing large or complex projects into manageable design phases.
- Validating design choices with users iteratively.
Non-Goals
- Writing any code or scaffolding projects before design approval.
- Taking any implementation action without a user-approved design.
- Skipping the design and review process for perceived 'simple' tasks.
Trust
- warning:Issues AttentionOpen issues (123) significantly outweigh closed issues (264) in the last 90 days, indicating slow response from maintainers.
Installation
First, add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add obra/superpowers/plugin install superpowers@superpowers-devQuality Score
Trust Signals
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