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Help turn ideas into fully formed plans through collaborative dialogue. Use before starting any project - product features, business ideas, creative projects, or process improvements.

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Brainstorming: From Idea to Plan

Help turn ideas into fully formed plans through natural collaborative dialogue.

Works for: product features, business ideas, creative projects, process improvements, technical designs, or any new initiative.

Process

Explore context → Ask questions → Propose approaches → Get approval → Document plan

1. Understand the Idea

  • Check any existing context first (files, docs, prior notes, recent work)
  • Gather all clarifying questions upfront — use ask_questions, ask, or questions tool if available; plain text otherwise
  • Focus on: purpose, who it's for, constraints, success criteria, timeline

2. Clarify Context

  • Timeline, budget, resources, technical constraints
  • Who is the audience? What does success look like?

3. Explore Approaches

  • Propose 2-3 different approaches with trade-offs
  • Lead with your recommended option and explain why

4. Get Approval

  • Present plan section by section, get approval before moving on
  • Scale depth to complexity of the idea
  • Cover dimensions relevant to the domain: structure, key decisions, risks, next steps

5. Document the Plan

  • Create a clear, actionable plan based on the agreed direction

Principles

  • Batch questions by dependency — Ask independent questions together in one round; hold dependent ones for the next round after getting answers
  • Use question tools first — If ask_questions, ask, or questions tools are available, use them; otherwise ask in plain text
  • Multiple choice preferred — Easier to answer than open-ended when possible
  • Start broad, then narrow — Understand the big picture first
  • No assumptions — "Simple" ideas often have hidden complexity
  • YAGNI ruthlessly — Remove unnecessary scope from all plans
  • Explore alternatives — Always propose 2-3 approaches before settling
  • Incremental validation — Present plan section by section, get approval before moving on
  • Be flexible — Go back and clarify when something doesn't make sense

Cross-References

  • Need research? → Invoke skilless.ai-research to search the web, read pages, extract video transcripts, or conduct deep multi-source investigations
  • Ready to document the plan? → Invoke skilless.ai-writing to produce a professional, structured design doc or report from the approved plan