idea SKILL.md skillA
idea from tercel/spec-forge is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tercel/spec-forge/idea@git:20260916.268f496Pins git:20260916.268f496 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tercel/spec-forge
- Path
skills/idea/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260916.268f496, committed Sep 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 26, 2026
- Size
- 24,684 bytes
- Repository stars
- 10
- License
- MIT
Use when exploring a new idea before writing formal specifications. Guides users through iterative discovery, research, and critical analysis to crystallize vague ideas into validated requirement drafts. Includes anti-pseudo-requirement checks, competitive research, demand evidence gathering, and "What if we don't build this?" analysis. Supports pause/resume across sessions, stores ideas in the project's ideas/ directory, and graduates validated ideas into the spec-forge auto chain…
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 — Brainstorming & Demand Validation
Explore, research, validate, and crystallize ideas through iterative sessions before committing to formal specification. **Every idea must prove it's a real need before graduating.**
## Core Principles
1. **Brainstorm freely, validate ruthlessly**: Early sessions are open and creative; later sessions demand evidence
2. **Non-linear**: Ideas evolve through multiple sessions, not in one sitting
3. **Research-driven**: Use web search, competitive analysis, and user evidence to ground ideas in reality
4. **Anti-pseudo-requirement**: Before graduating, every idea must answer "What happens if we don't build this?" — if the answer is "nothing significant", the idea is not ready
5. **Persistent**: Every session is recorded, nothing is lost
6. **Project-local**: Ideas live in the project's `ideas/` directory, close to the codebase and docs they relate to
## Storage Structure
> **`ideas/` is a top-level directory at the project root, separate from `docs/`. Never nest it inside `docs/`.**
```
{project-root}/
├── ideas/ # Brainstorming workspace (TOP-LEVEL, not under docs/)
│ ├── {idea-name}/
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tercel/spec-forge/idea@sha256:fd2206ca5d232a1aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260916.268f496, 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 Feb 26, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026, about one every 51 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260916.268f496 latest | 2026-09-16 | 268f496 | 24,684 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260719.c80ca98 | 2026-07-19 | c80ca98 | 24,615 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260325.bda334c | 2026-03-25 | bda334c | 23,228 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260304.e827e0b | 2026-03-04 | e827e0b | 23,221 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260226.2b57b60 | 2026-02-26 | 2b57b60 | 22,949 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 (24684 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
tercel/spec-forge · 10 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kacdqer7mbwlp3ka GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tercel/spec-forge/idea GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fd2206ca5d232a1a3e11a6cdf7fddcb0afaa055adfaa198c18b678d29de22e1d
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