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ideate

85 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By av/skills (GitHub) · coding · 28 stars · scanned at commit 8f70341

Timeboxed ideation on a topic where lens-driven proposers generate structurally different ideas, blind critics cull them, and pairwise judges rank the survivors on a tournament ladder instead of 1-10 scores, evolving the leaders until the clock runs out. Use when the user wants to brainstorm, explore ideas, discover features, generate options, or think through possibilities for a specified duration. Triggers on requests like "brainstorm X for 30 minutes", "ideate on X", "spend an hour thinking …

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'ideate' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'ideate' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named ideate already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/av/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8f70341629e3871b17c34b54aca27e02bf1d4b49' -- 'ideate' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'ideate' ~/.agents/skills/'ideate' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'ideate' ~/.claude/skills/'ideate' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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