| 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
- Identify Topic: If the user hasn't provided a topic name, ask for a short hyphenated name (e.g.,
api-gateway-design).
- Scaffold Directory: Create
wip/<topic>/context.md and wip/<topic>/discussion.md.
- Acknowledge Quarantine: Inform the user that the Storm Session is active and all work is safely quarantined to the
wip/ directory.
- Iterate: Work with the user, capturing ongoing state in
context.md and conversational/draft notes in discussion.md.
- 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]
