brainstorm-kanban

Brainstorm Kanban

Use this skill only in projects that have opted into a PoketoWork kanban pack.

Process

1. Follow the base /brainstorm workflow exactly, passing through $ARGUMENTS as the focus area.
2. Resolve the project board:
   • Check tasks/.kanban-board for a stored board ID and validate it with poketo kanban board <id>.
   • If missing or stale, run poketo kanban boards and match board names against basename $(pwd).
   • If there is no clear match, ask the user which board to use. If no boards exist, offer to create one with poketo kanban create-board --name "$(basename $(pwd))" --template standard.
3. Validate required lists: Backlog, Todo, In Progress, Done, Punt. Create missing lists with poketo kanban create-list.
4. Fetch the board and show a brief overview: list counts, overdue cards, starred cards, and blocked cards.
5. After the base brainstorm writes tasks/ideas.md, create one Backlog card per new idea:
   • Search for an existing card with the idea title first.
   • If found, skip it.
   • If not found, create a Backlog card with the idea title, description, effort category, and source reference.
6. Report cards created, skipped, and any kanban failures.

If poketo is unavailable or a kanban command fails, warn and continue with the base brainstorm output. Kanban is additive; it must not block tasks/ideas.md.

Next-Step Routing

In the final response, include either Recommended next skill: <command> or the two-line pair **Next work:** <specific task or "none"> and **Recommended next command:** <one command or route>. Route to the matching kanban workflow when board state can advance; otherwise route to the documented non-kanban fallback or say No follow-up skill recommended with the reason.

Alignment Page

When this skill produces durable deliverables (research, specs, plans, reports, prototypes, or any document output), build a full-depth HTML alignment page following ALIGNMENT-PAGE.md in this skill's directory. Output: alignment/brainstorm-kanban-{topic}.html.

Default Shipping Contract

Follow the shared shipping contract convention in CLAUDE.md.