ideate SKILL.md skillA
ideate from duthaho/skillhub is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add duthaho/skillhub/ideate@git:20260716.ac81253Pins git:20260716.ac81253 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- duthaho/skillhub
- Path
.claude/skills/ideate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260716.ac81253, committed Jul 16, 2026
- Size
- 5,361 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- MIT
Structured idea generation for a project or a blank-slate problem — ideas worth pursuing, not the first one that sticks. Grounds in the current repo (AGENTS.md/README) or a freeform problem, then diverges across named lenses (adjacent user, removed constraint, inversion, and more) so a run yields range, not ten variations of one idea. Fights premature convergence — nothing judged until the divergence quota is met — then verdicts each idea EXPLORE/PARK/DROP, where DROP is cheap. EXPLORE items…
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 — diverge before you converge `/ideate` — generate ideas for THIS repo (reads its AGENTS.md/README) `/ideate <topic|problem>` — generate ideas for an arbitrary problem, no repo needed Answer one question: **what could this become that isn't obvious yet — and which of those directions actually deserves effort?** Both halves matter. A session that only sprays ideas is a whiteboard; one that judges before it has range is just the first idea wearing a verdict. The deliverable is a short list of directions each carrying its own reason to live or die. The enemy the whole skill is built against is **premature convergence** — latching onto the first plausible idea and spending the session polishing it. Every step below exists to hold divergence open long enough to be worth converging on. ## Step 0 — Frame the ground You cannot diverge from nothing; fix a starting point first. - **With a repo** (`/ideate` alone): read `AGENTS.md` (the map skill writes it), `README`, and the top-reacted open issues. Distill the project's **job in one sentence** and its **differentiation axis** — the thing it does that alternatives don't, which every later verdict is judged against. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add duthaho/skillhub/ideate@sha256:d65fcc7ec87ee811The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260716.ac81253, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_m5ugf64lz4mqtgcl)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 16, 2026.
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 (5361 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
duthaho/skillhub · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_m5ugf64lz4mqtgcl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=duthaho/skillhub/ideate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d65fcc7ec87ee8118669b42c101971be769152ef5fa76ac4795dce36746f4427
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.
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