think-through
A Socratic interview skill for thinking through technical ideas like apps, products, tools, and projects. Use this when the user says "think through [idea]", "help me think about [app/product]", "let's explore [project idea]", or wants to iterate on a technical concept before building. Asks probing questions about the problem, target users, market, technical approach, tradeoffs, and viability. Continues until the idea is well-explored, then produces a written summary and proposes directions.
critical-thinking
Proactively challenge implementation plans, architecture decisions, and design assumptions. Use when reviewing plans, designs, or technical decisions. Verifies claims via web search, cross-references documentation, identifies risks and gaps, and surfaces hidden assumptions. Activates automatically when evaluating technical proposals.
brainstorming
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.
brainstorm
Use when starting from rough ideas - refines concepts into executable specifications through collaborative questioning, alternative exploration, and incremental validation, use this skill when called from a command
brainstorming
Use when creating or developing anything, before writing code or implementation plans - refines rough ideas into fully-formed designs through structured Socratic questioning, alternative exploration, and incremental validation
brainstorm
Interactive idea refinement using Socratic questioning methodology. This skill should be used when users want to explore an idea, find gaps in concepts, enhance proposals, or structure thoughts before implementation planning. Triggers on "brainstorm", "explore this idea", "find holes in", "help me think through", "what am I missing", or when presenting rough concepts that need refinement. Output integrates with create-plan skill.
paul-graham-wisdom
Apply Paul Graham's principles when exploring ideas, evaluating opportunities, building products, or making important decisions. Use this skill when brainstorming, validating ideas, planning ventures, thinking through problems, or needing a framework for clear thinking. Triggers include "evaluate this idea", "should I pursue this", "help me think through", "is this worth doing", "startup idea", "opportunity analysis", or any creative/strategic thinking task.
technical-research
Explore ideas, validate concepts, and research broadly across technical, business, and market domains. Preliminary phase before discussion-specification-plan-implement-review workflow. Use when: (1) User has a new idea to explore, (2) Need to research a topic deeply, (3) Validating feasibility - technical, business, or market, (4) Learning and exploration without necessarily building anything, (5) User says 'research this' or 'explore this idea', (6) Brain dumping early thoughts before formal discussion. Creates research documents in docs/workflow/research/ that may seed the technical-discussion phase.
brainstorm-diverge-converge
Use when you need to generate many creative options before systematically narrowing to the best choices. Invoke when exploring product ideas, solving open-ended problems, generating strategic alternatives, developing research questions, designing experiments, or when you need both breadth (many ideas) and rigor (principled selection). Use when user mentions brainstorming, ideation, divergent thinking, generating options, or evaluating alternatives.
