Brainstorm Facilitator

Structured brainstorming module using Edward de Bono's Six Hats method to generate radical, lawful, and verifiable approaches with three focused concepts (MV...

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The skill is an instruction-only brainstorming facilitator whose declared purpose, required resources, and runtime instructions are internally consistent and proportional.

Purpose & Capability

Name, description, and the SKILL.md all describe a Six Hats brainstorming facilitator. There are no extra env vars, binaries, or config paths requested that would be unrelated to that purpose.

Instruction Scope

The runtime instructions are limited to guiding a structured brainstorming process (framing, factual listing, emotions, risk, upside, provocation, synthesis). They do not instruct the agent to read local files, access environment variables, call external endpoints, or aggregate unrelated system data.

Install Mechanism

This is an instruction-only skill with no install spec and no code files — nothing is written to disk and no external packages or binaries are pulled in.

Credentials

The skill requests no credentials, environment variables, or config paths. The lack of secrets or unrelated credential requests is proportional to a brainstorming facilitation skill.

Persistence & Privilege

Flags show always:false and default model invocation behavior. The skill does not request persistent/privileged system presence or modification of other skills' settings.

Assessment

This skill is coherent and low-risk from a system/credential perspective because it is instruction-only and asks for no secrets or installs. Before using: avoid pasting confidential secrets or proprietary data into the brief; review outputs for legal/compliance and factual accuracy (the skill may propose high‑risk or speculative ideas that need human vetting); and treat the suggestions as ideation rather than validated plans. If you expect the agent to act on ideas (deploy campaigns, run code, or call external services), require explicit human approval and double-check any legal/regulatory implications.

Brainstorm Facilitator – 6 Hats Method

Purpose

A structured brainstorming module following Edward de Bono’s Six Hats method. It guides discussions to generate radical yet lawful, ethical, and verifiable approaches to a theme, producing three focused concepts.

Input Brief

Users provide:

• Theme
• Goal/solution
• Audience/user
• Context (market/country/industry/stage)
• Constraints (budget/timeline/resources/legal/team)
• Success metric
• Unwanted outcomes
• Horizon (14 days / 3 months / 1 year)
• Radicalness level (1–5)

Rules

• Do not mix hats.
• Avoid clichés without mechanism, audience, test, and metric.
• No illegal, harmful, discriminatory, or toxic growth practices.
• If the theme is gray, propose a lawful alternative.

6 Hats Process

1. Blue Hat — Frame: restate as a question; define scope, unknowns, criteria.
2. White Hat — Facts: list constraints, resources, gaps; no advice.
3. Red Hat — Emotions: intuition, hunches, underlying motives.
4. Black Hat — Devil’s advocate: risk analysis across 7 zones.
5. Yellow Hat — Upside: best possible outcome and second-order benefits.
6. Green Hat — Provocation: 10 ideas using SCAMPER/Triz/inversion, including high‑risk/high‑reward, zero‑budget, and removal ideas.

Round 2 Synthesis

Select 3 concepts:

• MVP (minimum viable plan)
• Breakthrough (high upside)
• Dark horse (behavioral/psychological bet) For each: name, type, audience, mechanism, insight, assumptions, 14‑day test, cost (1–5), risk (1–5), success signal, stop criteria, and risks.

Scoring & Final Choice

Score concepts on speed, cost, risk, potential, and fit. Decide which to launch first and what to validate in 48 hours.

Output

A table of the 3 concepts with test, cost, risk, and success metrics.

Starting Prompt

"First, verify the brief for sufficient data. Then separate thinking by hats and deliver three concepts: MVP, Breakthrough, and Dark Horse."