Brainstorm

Generate and evaluate competing solutions to a problem using parallel agents. Each proposer independently designs an approach, then all proposers critique each other's work. The lead synthesizes everything into a structured comparison for the user to choose from.

When to Use

• "What's the best way to..." — open-ended design questions
• Multiple valid approaches exist and trade-offs are unclear
• You want to explore the solution space before committing to an implementation
• Architecture or design decisions that will be hard to reverse
• The user explicitly asks to brainstorm, compare approaches, or evaluate options

When NOT to Use

• The problem has one obvious solution — just do it
• Debugging — use competing-hypotheses instead
• Multi-part problems that need parallel research — use team-solve instead