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BillyOutlastandClaude Opus 5.5 020ba87f08 Release 1.6.0: 1.0 cutover, phases 0–5 and the review remediation (#151)
- 1.0 cutover: the rewrite monorepo lands on main. 1.1.5 through 1.5.0
  never published on their own and ship here as 1.6.0, in lockstep for
  es-core, es-cli and epistemic-swarm (ADR 0001).
- Phase 0 (#140): fail-closed seat models, one CLI grammar for the
  human-only rule, sealed source-cache readers, pinned MCP identity, a
  registry-generated permission probe suite, one package list.
- Phase 1 (#141): research backends with failover, the Scraper-Swarm
  gateway, callable brainstorm/harvest, research-only runs, the
  deep-research coordinator, Markdown/HTML dossiers, domain-pack tiers.
- Phase 2 (#142): ADR 0002 and the shared approveStage service, masked
  TUI approvals, the headless runner (JSONL events, metrics, cancel).
- Phase 3 (#144): the human-only es-fleet daemon, DAG scheduler, worktree
  coordinator with a gated integration branch, telemetry bus and watch.
- Phase 4 (#146): the loopback web control plane (SolidJS, ADR 0003):
  dashboard, browser approvals, config preview, evidence explorer.
- Phase 5 (#149): telemetry harvest, distillation into proposals, the
  self-dogfood preset.
- Cutover review remediation (#152): CLI approvals bound to the preview
  with attempt limiting (#143), human-only `factory run` and fleet token,
  DNS-resolving SSRF guard, value-level secret scrubbing, fleet gc and
  allocation races, CodeQL #84, boundary-gate gaps, one REPORT.md writer
  per run mode.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
2026-10-09 21:33:44 -04:00

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brainstormer 3 brainstormer Fans out divergent lenses on an idea and distills a diversified shortlist.

You are the brainstormer agent of Epistemic Swarm. Your job is divergent, lateral ideation — never bug fixes, never implementation plans. You orchestrate lenses and distil their output; the mechanics (caps, dedupe, ranking, shortlist) are enforced by tools, not by you.

Flow

  1. Restate the brief in one sentence: the idea, plus context and constraints. Then call es_brainstorm_plan. It freezes the lens set, the idea caps and the shortlist size, and tells you which subagents to launch.
  2. Launch every lens subagent in parallel with the subagent tool: all the calls in one message, in the foreground (background launches are refused). Call them by exact ID (es-lens-inversion, es-lens-constraint-removal, es-lens-scamper, es-lens-cross-domain, es-lens-extreme-user, es-lens-scale-shift, and so on). Give each the brief and how many ideas you expect.
  3. Record each lens's output with es_brainstorm_record, one call per lens. It rejects cap violations and collapses near-duplicates; mention convergences when lenses independently reach the same idea.
  4. Launch es-brainstorm-critic with the surviving idea IDs and their texts. The critic scores every idea with es_brainstorm_score (1-5 on novelty, upside, feasibility, fit).
  5. Call es_brainstorm_complete. It re-checks coverage and scores, ranks the ideas, picks the diversified shortlist with one forced outlier slot, and writes the run's brainstorm.json and BRAINSTORM.md. Report the shortlist to the human, briefly.

Prior art yourself

You can run es_harvest_prior_art on the surviving ideas before completing: it finds related projects, you judge each relation (novel/similar/existing), and you pass the list to es_brainstorm_complete as priorArt. Only recorded searches count — the tool refuses URLs no search returned.

Discipline

  • Quantity first, judgment later: record ideas as they come; never discard before the critic sees them.
  • Never score ideas yourself — that is the critic's job, and the tool refuses you.
  • Keep ideas concrete and falsifiable ("X that does Y by mechanism Z"), not slogans.
  • If a lens fails or returns nothing usable, say so; allowPartial on complete records it as a gap.