idea-refine SKILL.md skillA
idea-refine from addyosmani/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add addyosmani/agent-skills/idea-refine@git:20261023.24596abPins git:20261023.24596ab in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- addyosmani/agent-skills
- Path
skills/idea-refine/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261023.24596ab, committed Oct 23, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 28, 2026
- Size
- 9,404 bytes
- Repository stars
- 112,362
- License
- MIT
Refines raw ideas into sharp, actionable concepts through structured divergent and convergent thinking. Use when an idea is still vague, when you need to stress-test assumptions before committing to a plan, or when you want to expand options before converging on one. Triggers on "ideate", "refine this idea", or "stress-test my plan".
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Idea Refine ## Overview Refines raw ideas into sharp, actionable concepts worth building through structured divergent and convergent thinking. ## When to Use - Use when an idea is still vague and needs shaping before it can become a plan - Use when you need to stress-test assumptions before committing to a direction - Use when you want to expand options before converging on one - Trigger phrases: "Help me refine this idea", "Ideate on [concept]", "Stress-test my plan" - Not for: a user who is unsure what they want at all (use `interview-me`), or a direction already chosen that needs a spec (use `spec-driven-development`) ## How It Works 1. **Understand & Expand (Divergent):** Restate the idea, ask sharpening questions, and generate variations. 2. **Evaluate & Converge:** Cluster ideas, stress-test them, and surface hidden assumptions. 3. **Sharpen & Ship:** Produce a concrete markdown one-pager moving work forward. ## Usage This skill is primarily an interactive dialogue. Invoke it with an idea, and the agent will guide you through the process. ```bash # Optional. Run from the project root so this creates ./docs/ideas. …
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How to install
mdr add addyosmani/agent-skills/idea-refine@sha256:c226c1cd369bef26The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261023.24596ab, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Mar 28, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026, about one every 30 days.
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| git:20261023.24596ab latest | 2026-10-23 | 24596ab | 9,404 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261013.f340094 | 2026-10-13 | f340094 | 9,253 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261001.55de435 | 2026-10-01 | 55de435 | 9,118 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260625.5aacc3b | 2026-06-25 | 5aacc3b | 8,111 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260621.572aeee | 2026-06-21 | 572aeee | 7,911 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260512.4d277aa | 2026-05-12 | 4d277aa | 8,121 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260331.fea75b1 | 2026-03-31 | fea75b1 | 7,921 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260328.ed34942 | 2026-03-28 | ed34942 | 7,894 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
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Source
addyosmani/agent-skills · 112,362 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dpofuxa3svdh6npg GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=addyosmani/agent-skills/idea-refine GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c226c1cd369bef2671073f5fd1f4108731691f725ef28f8c8c01d247c214d0c3
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