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J Brainstorm — Design skill for Claude Code

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Design-before-implementation workflow — explore intent, requirements, and design before writing code.

How to install J Brainstorm

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/jlaws-dotfiles-j-brainstorm.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jlaws/dotfiles/HEAD/.claude/commands/j-brainstorm.md -o ~/.claude/commands/jlaws-dotfiles-j-brainstorm.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What J Brainstorm does

name: j-brainstorm description: "Design-before-implementation workflow — explore intent, requirements, and design before writing code. Use when creating features, building components, or modifying behavior. Do NOT use after implementation is started (use /j-execute-plan instead)." argument-hint: "" model: opus effort: xhigh

Invoke the `design-first` skill via the Skill tool before doing anything else. Use it to explore intent, requirements, and design for t

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