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Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs

Interactive idea refinement using Socratic method to develop fully-formed designs

Code Review Reception

Receive and act on code review feedback with technical rigor, not performative agreement or blind implementation

Collision-Zone Thinking

Force unrelated concepts together to discover emergent properties - "What if we treated X like Y?"

Condition-Based Waiting

Replace arbitrary timeouts with condition polling for reliable async tests

Defense-in-Depth Validation

Validate at every layer data passes through to make bugs impossible

Gardening Skills Wiki

Maintain skills wiki health - check links, naming, cross-references, and coverage

Getting Started with Skills

Skills wiki intro - mandatory workflows, search tool, brainstorming triggers

Inversion Exercise

Flip core assumptions to reveal hidden constraints and alternative approaches - "what if the opposite were true?"

Meta-Pattern Recognition

Spot patterns appearing in 3+ domains to find universal principles

Preserving Productive Tensions

Recognize when disagreements reveal valuable context, preserve multiple valid approaches instead of forcing premature resolution

Pulling Updates from Skills Repository

Sync local skills repository with upstream changes from obra/superpowers-skills

Remembering Conversations

Search previous Claude Code conversations for facts, patterns, decisions, and context using semantic or text search

Root Cause Tracing

Systematically trace bugs backward through call stack to find original trigger

Scale Game

Test at extremes (1000x bigger/smaller, instant/year-long) to expose fundamental truths hidden at normal scales

Sharing Skills

Contribute skills back to upstream via branch and PR

Simplification Cascades

Find one insight that eliminates multiple components - "if this is true, we don't need X, Y, or Z"

Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Write the test first, watch it fail, write minimal code to pass

Testing Anti-Patterns

Never test mock behavior. Never add test-only methods to production classes. Understand dependencies before mocking.

Testing Skills With Subagents

RED-GREEN-REFACTOR for process documentation - baseline without skill, write addressing failures, iterate closing loopholes

Tracing Knowledge Lineages

Understand how ideas evolved over time to find old solutions for new problems and avoid repeating past failures

When Stuck - Problem-Solving Dispatch

Dispatch to the right problem-solving technique based on how you're stuck