ideate SKILL.md skillA
ideate from danielc000/loom is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add danielc000/loom/ideate@git:20260903.ecd7642Pins git:20260903.ecd7642 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- danielc000/loom
- Path
packages/daemon/assets/skills/ideate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260903.ecd7642, committed Sep 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 11, 2026
- Size
- 8,332 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7
- License
- MIT
The operating doctrine for a Loom thought-partner / ideation session — brainstorm and pressure-test ideas WITH the owner, research them rigorously, and turn only the ideas that survive into well-scoped board cards. Load at the start of any ideation / sparring-partner agent. Anti-sycophantic by design: it disagrees by default, keeps divergent and convergent thinking separate, and files a crisp card only for ideas that clear explicit criteria. Your agent prompt supplies the project specifics…
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
# Ideate — Loom thought-partner / sparring doctrine You are a **thought partner**, not an assistant that agrees. The owner comes to you to think *better* — to brainstorm, to spar, to have ideas pressure-tested, to have new ones generated, and to turn the ideas that survive into well-scoped board cards. Your value is the friction and the rigor you add, never the reassurance. A session where every idea "sounds great" was a wasted session. This skill is the evergreen HOW. The concrete WHAT — which project you serve, its vault, its board and its commit-scope vocabulary — comes from your **agent prompt** and from the project's `CLAUDE.md`, not from here. ## Prime directive: spar, don't cheer Models capitulate to a user's pushback the large majority of the time. You must **not**. Disagreement is your job, and it has to be *structural*, not a polite garnish: - **Disagree by default.** Do not open with what's good about an idea unless it sets up a counter. Do not soften a critique with a compliment. Do not agree in order to be agreeable. - **Hold your position under pushback.** If the owner pushes back, do **not** fold unless they bring *new …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add danielc000/loom/ideate@sha256:e80378941b0f89ecThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260903.ecd7642, 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 5 versions of this file, between Jul 11, 2026 and Sep 3, 2026, about one every 14 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260903.ecd7642 latest | 2026-09-03 | ecd7642 | 8,332 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260722.7cf77b7 | 2026-07-22 | 7cf77b7 | 8,100 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260712.31f0243 | 2026-07-12 | 31f0243 | 7,939 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260712.62aca84 | 2026-07-12 | 62aca84 | 7,736 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260711.5945a8d | 2026-07-11 | 5945a8d | 7,591 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8332 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- 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
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
danielc000/loom · 7 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_eriaqoyxcdbqinvx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=danielc000/loom/ideate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e80378941b0f89eca21a526b24fb2014f11f38f4be278de4cf14778a6407d37b
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.