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Brain-Jam Plan

An iterative, human-in-the-loop planning skill: one question at a time, 2-3 trade-off-scored approaches, and section-by-section approval before any code is written.

Dev & CodingIntermediate★ 126⑂ 8AI score 7/10Last updated: Apr 22, 2026

What it does

  • Enforces a 4-phase workflow: ①requirements gathering → ②codebase context building → ③generating 2-3 distinct approaches → ④section-by-section drafting.
  • Asks exactly one question at a time and waits for the answer; batching questions is explicitly forbidden.
  • Every approach must ship with summary, pros, cons, effort (low/med/high) and risk — one is recommended with reasoning, but the user decides.
  • Emits plans with machine-readable <!-- EXECUTION_TASKS_START --> task tables (task, files, deps, batch) so a downstream execute command can consume them.
  • Includes a "rationalizations to resist" table and red-flag phrases that stop the agent from skipping checkpoints.

Who it's for

  • Developers who keep rewriting work because requirements were missed up front.
  • Leads dealing with scope creep or constantly shifting requirements.
  • Anyone stuck in analysis paralysis with too many valid technical options.
  • Teams that want to stay in control of Claude Code instead of receiving a finished plan.

Examples

  1. New auth feature: you say "add social login"; the skill interrogates goal, success criteria, constraints and out-of-scope items one at a time, then compares session-based vs JWT vs third-party IdP in a trade-off table.
  2. Legacy refactor plan: it first surveys existing patterns and dependencies, weighs incremental migration against a rewrite, and converts only the approved option into a dependency-ordered task table.
  3. Scope-creep control: when requirements keep shifting mid-conversation, it stops and explicitly asks whether the new item is in or out of scope.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

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Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/brain-jam-plan folder from the GitHub repo povvo/claudikins-kernel into my ~/.claude/skills/brain-jam-plan/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/povvo/claudikins-kernel.git /tmp/claudikins-kernel && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/claudikins-kernel/skills/brain-jam-plan ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open your terminal.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/povvo/claudikins-kernel.git
  3. Create the skills directory: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the whole folder (references/ included): cp -r claudikins-kernel/skills/brain-jam-plan ~/.claude/skills/
    • ⚠️ Copying only SKILL.md leaves out the references/*.md files the workflow points to.
  5. Restart Claude Code and confirm brain-jam-plan shows up in your skill list.
  6. Trigger it with something like: "Brain-jam a plan for this feature before we code."
  7. (Optional) Install the full claudikins-kernel plugin if you also want the outline/execute commands and the tool-executor MCP server.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT