rad-brainstormer

The brainstormer that doesn't anchor you. Most AI brainstorming dumps fifteen ideas at you immediately — and research on human–AI ideation shows you then anchor on them, producing fewer, less varied, less original ideas of your own. rad-brainstormer draws out YOUR thinking first, every time, then builds on it with proven facilitation methods under enforced divergent/convergent discipline (idea generation and evaluation are never mixed). It brainstorms anything — software, business strategy, content, travel, creative projects, life decisions — not just code. Four skills (the standalone technique skills are modes of the session): - `brainstorm-session` — the facilitated session, at two tiers: a quick pass (one technique, top-3 ideas + recommendation, a few turns, zero subagents — the default for small, bounded topics) or the full session (anti-anchoring first, divergent → convergent, live domain research when useful). A mode dial (facilitator / partner / generator) makes who-generates a user choice. Techniques selectable by name: scamper, six-hats, reverse, hmw, starburst, unblock. - `idea-evaluation` — you already have the ideas; structured prioritization (Impact/Effort, Assumption Mapping, Pre-Mortem, JTBD, weighted scoring), with a hard rule that the user scores before the AI does. - `five-whys` — root-cause analysis (a different job than ideation, kept separate). - `design-sprint` — post-decision: chosen software approach → reviewable spec → hand-off to /rad-planner:plan; rad-planner v7+ pre-fills its discovery interview from the spec. Three agents: domain-researcher (live web research woven into the questions, not dumped as a report — offered just-in-time, never upfront), idea-challenger (pre-mortem stress-test of top candidates), spec-reviewer (completeness review — inline self-review first, then at most one dispatch, more only on request). Output is one self-contained markdown file and the skill asks where to deliver it: a personal folder (default for non-project topics; surfaced for download on Desktop/Cowork/claude.ai), into the current project as an explicitly transient doc (consumed by the planner, archived after — never docs/design.md, which is your brand/UI design direction), or no file at all. Never auto-committed. Pairs with rad-planner (ideation → design → plan); works standalone on any topic.