What is brainstorming?
brainstorming is a Claude skill by obra that you MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, modifying behavior, or planning anything new, in software or out of it (a talk, a. It is listed under Engineering practice and has 384,800 installs.
| Type | Claude skill |
|---|---|
| Author | obra |
| Repository | obra/superpowers |
| Popularity | 384,800 installs |
| Category | Engineering practice |
| Security | Low risk (100/100) |
| Rank | #81 of 1,262 Claude skills; #17 in Engineering practice |
| SKILL.md length | 225 lines |
| License | MIT |
| Last commit | 2026-10-10 |
| Stars this week | +3,625 |
| Installs in the last 24h | 1,100 |
Is brainstorming safe to install?
brainstorming scores 100/100 on the MCPMods security check: Low risk. No checks raised a concern. It passed 9 of 9 checks.
Skill results come from a static scan of its SKILL.md for instruction overrides, hidden actions, risky commands and credential access.
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| No instruction-override phrases | Pass |
| No hidden actions | Pass |
| No pipe-to-shell installers | Pass |
| No obfuscated code | Pass |
| No destructive commands | Pass |
| Doesn't ask for keys or credentials | Pass |
| No network requests | Pass |
| No shell commands | Pass |
| Installs no packages | Pass |
How do I install brainstorming?
- Install with the skills CLI. Works for Claude Code and other agents that read skills.
npx skills add https://github.com/obra/superpowers --skill brainstorming
- Or copy it by hand. Claude Code loads any folder with a SKILL.md from ~/.claude/skills.
git clone https://github.com/obra/superpowers cp -r superpowers/skills/brainstorming ~/.claude/skills/brainstorming
- Use it. Claude loads the skill when a task matches its description. You can also name it in your prompt.
Use the brainstorming skill to …
Or ask Claude to set it up
Paste this into Claude Code and it installs brainstorming for you:
Install the "brainstorming" skill from https://github.com/obra/superpowers/tree/main/skills/brainstorming into ~/.claude/skills, then tell me in one line what it does.
More from obra/superpowers
This repository has at least 9 Claude skills on MCPMods.
- systematic-debugging: Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes (Low risk)
- writing-plans: Use when you have a spec or requirements for a multi-step task, before touching code (Low risk)
- using-superpowers: Use when starting any conversation - establishes how to find and use skills, requiring skill invocation before ANY respo (Low risk)
- requesting-code-review: Use when completing tasks, implementing major features, or before merging to verify work meets requirements (Low risk)
- test-driven-development: Use when implementing any feature or bugfix, before writing implementation code (Low risk)
- verification-before-completion: Use when about to claim work is complete, fixed, or passing, before committing or creating PRs - requires running verifi (Low risk)
- executing-plans: Use when executing an implementation plan in the current session as the implementer yourself — your human partner chose (Low risk)
- subagent-driven-development: Use when executing implementation plans with independent tasks in the current session (Low risk)