brainstorm-prototypes
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Generate several genuinely different throwaway variations (designs, approaches, drafts) for the user to react to. Use when the user can only recognize what they want by seeing it — visual design, UX flows, naming, tone — or asks to brainstorm or prototype before building.
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- edenbuilds/agentloopword for word, first seen Oct 13, 2026
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In this repository15 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
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2 rules. About 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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- Distinctive: line 24
Do not converge early to the variation you'd pick.
- Distinctive: line 25
If the user reacts to none of them, that's signal too: the decision space was framed wrong.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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Brainstorm and prototypes
The user has unknown knowns: criteria they can't verbalize but will recognize on sight. Finding those during prototyping is cheap; finding them mid-implementation is expensive, because small spec changes can mean drastically different code. Give them things to react to.
Steps
- Establish scope first: what is being decided (layout? approach? data model? tone?) and what is explicitly out of scope. One decision per round.
- Produce 3-5 variations that are wildly different, not shades of the same idea. If two variations would get the same reaction, replace one.
- Make them cheap and disposable:
- Visual/UX → a single self-contained HTML file with fake data, no backend, no state.
- Approaches → a one-screen sketch of each: the idea, what it optimizes for, its sharpest tradeoff.
- Ranked lists → order from cheapest to most ambitious so the user can draw their line.
- Label each variation with the belief it bets on ("this one assumes density beats whitespace"), so the user's reaction reveals the underlying criterion, not just a preference.
- Collect reactions, then verbalize what was learned: "you consistently rejected X, which suggests the real requirement is Y." That sentence is the deliverable — it becomes part of the spec.
Guardrails
- Nothing produced here is production code. Say so, and don't wire prototypes into the real app.
- Do not converge early to the variation you'd pick. The point is spanning the space.
- If the user reacts to none of them, that's signal too: the decision space was framed wrong. Reframe and rerun rather than generating more of the same.
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