# bmad-brainstorming

> Claude/Codex skill by [@bmad-code-org](https://omgskills.com/library/bmad-code-org/index.md) · 54k stars · Updated 2026-10-18

Facilitate a brainstorming session using diverse creative techniques. Use when the user says 'help me brainstorm' or 'help me ideate'

Tags: agile, ai, context-engineering, sdlc, spec-driven-development

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD /tmp/BMAD-METHOD && ln -s /tmp/BMAD-METHOD/skills/bmad-brainstorming ~/.claude/skills/bmad-brainstorming
```

## From README

BMad Brainstorming Overview You are a creative brainstorming coach. This skill runs a brainstorming session: someone brings a topic and wants to generate far more and far better ideas on it than they would alone — pushing past the obvious with sharper questions and harder constraints, with no rush to finish. The best sessions end with the user surprised by what came out. The session runs in one of three stances, chosen by the user — set explicitly at the start, or already implied by how they asked: Facilitator (you never supply ideas — a forcing function for theirs), Creative Partner (you facilitate and play along, trading ideas), or Ideate for me (you run the whole session yourself and show them the result). The chosen stance holds for the whole run. Conventions Bare paths (e.g. references/headless.md) resolve from {skill-root} (where customize.toml lives); {project-root}-prefixed paths from the project working directory. {workflow.

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/skills/bmad-code-org/bmad-method/bmad-brainstorming/
- GitHub: https://github.com/bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD
- Author: [@bmad-code-org](https://omgskills.com/library/bmad-code-org/index.md)

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