ideate

name	ideate
description	Quarantined workspace for brainstorming and rapid ideation. Auto-triggers when the user says "storm session", "storm sesh", "brainstorm", or "let's ideate".

Ideate (Storm Session)

Provide a safe, quarantined space for exploring net-new ideas without risking accidental changes to established code or documentation. All work must remain in the `wip/` directory until explicitly graduated.

Triggers

• User says "start a storm session" or "storm sesh"
• User says "let's brainstorm" or "ideate"
• User wants to explore a complex new feature before committing to an architecture.

The Quarantine Rule

CRITICAL: While the ideate skill is active, you are strictly forbidden from modifying existing source code, production files, or files in docs/ or library/. All scratchpad work, drafts, and code experiments MUST be written to wip/<topic>/.

Process

1. Identify Topic: If the user hasn't provided a topic name, ask for a short hyphenated name (e.g., api-gateway-design).
2. Scaffold Directory: Create wip/<topic>/context.md and wip/<topic>/discussion.md.
3. Acknowledge Quarantine: Inform the user that the Storm Session is active and all work is safely quarantined to the wip/ directory.
4. Iterate: Work with the user, capturing ongoing state in context.md and conversational/draft notes in discussion.md.
5. Graduate: When the user says the idea is ready, ask where they want the artifacts moved (e.g., into source code, or to the document skill for a formal write-up), then clean up the wip/ folder.

Templates

1. context.md

Path: wip/<topic>/context.md Usage: Update this progressively as major decisions are made. It should allow a resumed session to know exactly where the idea stands.

# Context: [Topic Name]

**Goal**: [What are we trying to figure out or create?]
**Current State**: [Where did we land? What's been decided?]
**Open Questions**: [What still needs to be resolved?]
**Key Constraints**: [Anything that limits options]

2. discussion.md

Path: wip/<topic>/discussion.md Usage: A running, append-only log of ideas, proposals, and exchanges.

# Running Discussion

## [YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM]
[Brief note on the latest idea, sketch, or proposal explored]