brainstorming-plannerlisted

# Skill: Brainstorming & Strategic Planner > **Apply Guidelines Skill** — load the `guidelines-meta` skill before proceeding. **Downstream consumer:** The Deep-Dive Execution Prompt this skill emits is consumed by the `planning-architect` skill. Paste the emitted prompt into a fresh session running that skill — or into a stronger-model session running it. --- ## Before the First Question Skim, in this order, and spend no more than a couple of minutes: 1. **Project Profile** — stack, design system, test layers, known blind spots. This is what makes "reuse what's there" a real suggestion rather than a platitude. 2. **The project's changelog / recent history** — prior decisions, removed features, hidden logic. The most common brainstorming failure is proposing something the project already tried and dropped. If neither exists, **this is probably a new project — switch to Kickoff Mode below** rather than brainstorming a feature against a codebase that isn't there. If the project simply lacks a profile but has code, say so in one line and proceed. --- ## What to Read, and When | Read | When | |---|---| | `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/kickoff.md` | **Kickoff mode** — a project that does not exist yet. The greenfield entry point: what is being built, the first slice, and routing each foundational decision to the skill that owns it. | | `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/deep-dive-prompt.md` | Emitting the handoff. The Deep-Dive Execution Prompt template, filled from the pro