# Brainstorming

> Brainstorming is a community-maintained skill from obra/superpowers. Anomity scores its risk at 40 out of 100 (medium).

- **Canonical URL:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/skill/brainstorming
- **Kind:** Skill
- **Publisher:** obra/superpowers
- **Trust level:** community
- **Risk score:** 40/100 (medium)
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-02
- **JSON:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/api/entries/skill/brainstorming

## Description

Brainstorming is a process skill from the Superpowers plugin that runs before any creative or generative work — building a feature, designing a component, adding behavior, or modifying an existing flow. Instead of letting the agent dive straight into code from a short user prompt, the skill forces a deliberate exploration of intent, requirements, and design alternatives. It walks the user through clarifying the actual problem, naming the constraints, sketching at least two viable approaches, and recording the decisions before any file is touched.

The skill itself does not read or write files — it operates entirely in the conversation — but it shapes everything the agent does afterward by anchoring later steps to the decisions surfaced during the brainstorm. Because it has no declared filesystem, shell, or network capabilities of its own, it contributes no extra risk signals to the running agent. It is one of the safest skills in the catalog and one of the highest-leverage ones for avoiding the half-finished, scope-creeping implementations that result when an agent jumps from a vague prompt straight into code.

## Why it scored 40

The score starts at the catalog's neutral base of 50 and moves only through the signals below. The formula is published at https://catalog.anomity.ai/about — there is no model and no hidden heuristic.

| Signal | Contribution | Severity | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Established community project | -10 | trust offset |  |

Clamped result: **40/100**, band **medium**.

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Source: Anomity Catalog (https://catalog.anomity.ai/). Scoring methodology: https://catalog.anomity.ai/about. Machine-readable index: https://catalog.anomity.ai/llms.txt · https://catalog.anomity.ai/openapi.json