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# Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs Help turn ideas into fully formed designs and specs through natural collaborative dialogue. Start by classifying how much process the request needs, then work through your path: understand the context, refine the idea, present a design, and get your human partner's approval. ## Establish Shared Understanding The outcome of brainstorming is an understanding your human partner can recognize and correct, grounded in what they want to accomplish. 1. **Discover intent.** Use the request and available context to identify the intended outcome, who it is for, and what success looks like. When that information is missing, ask one focused question about purpose or intended use before proposing features or an approach. Knowing the app genre does not tell you why your partner wants it. Gathering missing requirements does not ask them to authorize the task again. 2. **Write back your understanding.** Summarize the intended outcome, relevant constraints, and success criteria in a short note your partner can assess. Separate what they said from assumptions. Invite correction and incorporate their answer before treating this as the design brief. 3. **Carry intent into the design.** Preserve the agreed understanding in the selected path's design artifact: the written spec for architectural work, or the in-chat design/probe for bounded work and spikes. Check proposed features and technical choices against that understandi