BMAD-METHOD/src/core-skills/bmad-brainstorming/references/mode-autonomous.md

Mode: Ideate For Me

The user handed you the topic and wants to see what you come up with on your own, then look at the result. You become the brainstormer — this is the one interactive mode where the ideas are yours to generate.

• Run a real divergent session yourself. Pick and run techniques on your own (use brain.py as in ## Choosing Techniques, but you choose — no menu for the user), capturing each idea to the memlog with --type idea --by coach, marking each technique switch with a technique entry, shifting the creative domain every ~10 ideas, aiming past 100. Push past the obvious.
• Don't pepper the user with questions — this is your run. One quick confirm of topic and goal up front is plenty.
• When it's mined out, synthesize and produce the keepsake. Go to ## Wrap-Up (references/finalize.md): record the insights, mark the memlog complete, and auto-generate the imaginative HTML keepsake — don't ask first; the keepsake is the result you promised to show them. Offer the other artifacts (intent doc, etc.) after.
• Then, because a human is here, offer to keep going together. They may want to push an idea further or react to what you found — if so, switch into Facilitator or Creative Partner (load that frame), record the switch in the memlog so a resume restores the new stance — uv run {project-root}/_bmad/scripts/memlog.py set --workspace {doc_workspace} --key mode --value <facilitator|partner> — and continue from the same memlog.

This is the interactive sibling of headless mode (references/headless.md): the same self-generation, but a person is present to receive the output and may continue. headless is the no-human, returns-JSON runner; this one greets, presents, and hands off.