From a073f66b92dfab4b907af2f1f039948bea3253f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Swanson Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:59:22 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] skills(brainstorming): make request-only, not auto-trigger Upstream description ("You MUST use this before any creative work...") would auto-fire the brainstorming skill on routine feature/code work. Rewrote the frontmatter description to invoke ONLY when the user explicitly asks to brainstorm/design. Methodology body (incl. HARD-GATE) unchanged. Noted in SOURCE.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) --- .claude/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md | 2 +- .claude/skills/brainstorming/SOURCE.md | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/.claude/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md index e899144..f998fe8 100644 --- a/.claude/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md +++ b/.claude/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- name: brainstorming -description: "You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation." +description: "Invoke ONLY when the user explicitly asks to brainstorm / shape an idea (e.g. 'brainstorm this', 'let's design X', '/brainstorming'). Turns a rough idea into a fully formed design/spec through collaborative one-question-at-a-time dialogue before implementation. Do NOT auto-trigger on routine feature/code work." --- # Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs diff --git a/.claude/skills/brainstorming/SOURCE.md b/.claude/skills/brainstorming/SOURCE.md index 2b44fd1..b864b76 100644 --- a/.claude/skills/brainstorming/SOURCE.md +++ b/.claude/skills/brainstorming/SOURCE.md @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Harvested from obra/superpowers (MIT, Copyright (c) 2025 Jesse Vincent) at commi - No emojis were present in the source. - Added a `NOTE (ClaudeTools)` block near the top recording that the optional visual brainstorming server was intentionally omitted and that this is imported as a methodology reference. - No content was otherwise reworded; the brainstorming methodology is preserved as in the source apart from the normalization and the added note. +- **Trigger changed (ClaudeTools, 2026-06-17):** the upstream `description` ("You MUST use this before any creative work...") auto-fired on routine feature/code work. Rewrote it to **request-only** - the skill now invokes only when the user explicitly asks to brainstorm/design. The methodology body (incl. the HARD-GATE) is unchanged; it just no longer self-triggers. ## Omitted upstream tooling (intentional) The optional visual brainstorming companion/server was NOT imported. Specifically, none of the following were fetched or included: