Brainstorm

Brainstorm is a dedicated space to develop an idea with agents and teammates before it becomes work. An idea that isn't yet ready to be a task usually gets lost in chat; Brainstorm gives it a home — a place to think it through, decompose it, and turn it into a project and tasks.

Open Brainstorm from the sidebar.

The layout

Brainstorm is organized around threads (each a separate idea), with the conversation in the center:

  • Threads — the list of brainstorms. Each is an independent conversation.
  • Chat — talk with agents and teammates. @mention an agent and work the idea: shape it, challenge it, break it down.
  • Extracted work — as the discussion matures, the agent proposes a project and tasks to create from it. You turn those proposals into real entities in the tracker in one step — no retyping; they land on the board, attached to the project, ready to assign.

How you use it

  1. Start a brainstorm thread for the idea.
  2. Discuss it with an agent — ask it to clarify scope, list risks, or draft a breakdown into concrete tasks.
  3. When the shape is clear, have the agent extract the project and tasks, then create them in the tracker.

A brainstorm thread isn't tied to a task — it's the step before tasks exist. Once the work is extracted into a project and tasks, the rest of the workflow (boards, discussions, agents) takes over.

Public and private brainstorms

Every brainstorm is either public or private — choose when you create it, and change it any time from the brainstorm's settings.

  • Public (default) — visible to everyone in the workspace. Anyone can open it and join the discussion, and its unread activity shows in everyone's Brainstorm badge.
  • Private — visible only to you and the people you invite, plus the agents you bring in. It stays out of other members' lists and badges. In a private brainstorm the @-mention list offers only agents until you make it public or add people.

Making a private brainstorm public is one click; going back to private keeps its current members.

Context

A brainstorm is usually about something. When you create or edit one you can attach context — links to the related project, task, team, repository, or another brainstorm.

Context appears as badges on the brainstorm and, more importantly, gives the agents the surrounding picture: an agent working the idea already knows which project it belongs to or which task sparked it, without you pasting it in.

AI Adviser

Turn on an AI Adviser to get a second perspective on the discussion — quietly, in a side panel, without @mentioning an agent into the thread. The adviser reads the conversation and offers its take on where things stand; you decide whether to bring any of it into the shared discussion.

See the AI Adviser page (under Brainstorm) for how it works.