team-brainstorm

Productivity

Unified team skill for brainstorming team. Uses team-worker agent architecture with role directories for domain logic. Coordinator orchestrates pipeline, workers are team-worker agents. Triggers on "team brainstorm".

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<required_reading> @~/.maestro/workflows/run-mode.md </required_reading>

Team Brainstorm

Orchestrate multi-agent brainstorming: generate ideas → challenge assumptions → synthesize → evaluate. Supports Quick, Deep, and Full pipelines with Generator-Critic loop.

Architecture

Skill(skill="team-brainstorm", args="topic description")
                    |
         SKILL.md (this file) = Router
                    |
     +--------------+--------------+
     |                             |
  no --role flag              --role <name>
     |                             |
  Coordinator                  Worker
  roles/coordinator/role.md    roles/<name>/role.md
     |
     +-- analyze → dispatch → spawn workers → STOP
                                    |
                    +-------+-------+-------+
                    v       v       v       v
                 [ideator][challenger][synthesizer][evaluator]

Role Registry

Role	Path	Prefix	Inner Loop
coordinator	roles/coordinator/role.md	—	—
ideator	roles/ideator/role.md	IDEA-*	false
challenger	roles/challenger/role.md	CHALLENGE-*	false
synthesizer	roles/synthesizer/role.md	SYNTH-*	false
evaluator	roles/evaluator/role.md	EVAL-*	false

Pre-load (coordinator, before dispatch)

Codebase docs: If .workflow/codebase/ARCHITECTURE.md exists, read for module boundaries
Specs (arch): maestro load --type spec --category arch — load arch constraints as shared context
Wiki knowledge: maestro search "brainstorm ideation design" --json — top 5 entries as prior context
All optional — proceed without if unavailable

Role Router

Parse $ARGUMENTS:

Has --role <name> → Read roles/<name>/role.md, execute Phase 2-4
No --role → @roles/coordinator/role.md, execute entry router

Shared Constants

Session prefix: BRS
Session path: .workflow/.team/BRS-<slug>-<date>/
CLI tools: maestro delegate --mode analysis (read-only), maestro delegate --mode write (modifications)
Message bus: mcp__maestro__team_msg(session_id=<session-id>, ...)

Worker Spawn Template

Coordinator spawns workers using this template:

Agent({
  subagent_type: "team-worker",
  description: "Spawn <role> worker",
  team_name: "brainstorm",
  name: "<role>",
  run_in_background: true,
  prompt: `## Role Assignment
role: <role>
role_spec: <skill_root>/roles/<role>/role.md
session: <session-folder>
session_id: <session-id>
team_name: brainstorm
requirement: <topic-description>
inner_loop: false

## Progress Milestones
session_id: <session-id>
Report progress via team_msg at natural phase boundaries (context loaded -> core work done -> verification).
Report blockers immediately via team_msg type="blocker".
Report completion via team_msg type="task_complete" after final SendMessage.

Read role_spec file (@<skill_root>/roles/<role>/role.md) to load Phase 2-4 domain instructions.
Execute built-in Phase 1 (task discovery) -> role Phase 2-4 -> built-in Phase 5 (report).`
})

Parallel ideator spawn (Full pipeline with N angles):

When Full pipeline has N parallel IDEA tasks, spawn N distinct team-worker agents named ideator-1, ideator-2, etc.

Agent({
  subagent_type: "team-worker",
  name: "ideator-<N>",
  team_name: "brainstorm",
  run_in_background: true,
  prompt: `## Role Assignment
role: ideator
role_spec: <skill_root>/roles/ideator/role.md
session: <session-folder>
session_id: <session-id>
team_name: brainstorm
requirement: <topic-description>
agent_name: ideator-<N>
inner_loop: false

## Progress Milestones
session_id: <session-id>
Report progress via team_msg at natural phase boundaries (context loaded -> core work done -> verification).
Report blockers immediately via team_msg type="blocker".
Report completion via team_msg type="task_complete" after final SendMessage.

Read role_spec file (@<skill_root>/roles/ideator/role.md) to load Phase 2-4 domain instructions.
Execute built-in Phase 1 (task discovery, owner=ideator-<N>) -> role Phase 2-4 -> built-in Phase 5 (report).`
})

User Commands

Command	Action
`check` / `status`	View execution status graph, no advancement
`resume` / `continue`	Check worker states, advance next step

Session Directory

.workflow/.team/BRS-<slug>-<date>/
├── session.json                    # Session metadata + pipeline + gc_round
├── task-analysis.json              # Coordinator analyze output
├── .msg/
│   ├── messages.jsonl              # Message bus log
│   └── meta.json                   # Session state + cross-role state
├── wisdom/                         # Cross-task knowledge
│   ├── learnings.md
│   ├── decisions.md
│   ├── conventions.md
│   └── issues.md
├── ideas/                          # Ideator output
│   ├── idea-001.md
│   └── idea-002.md
├── critiques/                      # Challenger output
│   ├── critique-001.md
│   └── critique-002.md
├── synthesis/                      # Synthesizer output
│   └── synthesis-001.md
└── evaluation/                     # Evaluator output
    └── evaluation-001.md

Specs Reference

specs/pipelines.md — Pipeline definitions and task registry

Error Handling

Scenario	Resolution
Unknown command	Error with available command list
Role not found	Error with role registry
CLI tool fails	Worker fallback to direct implementation
Fast-advance conflict	Coordinator reconciles on next callback
Completion action fails	Default to Keep Active
Generator-Critic loop exceeds 2 rounds	Force convergence to synthesizer
No ideas generated	Coordinator prompts with seed questions