ideate SKILL.md skillA
ideate from av/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add av/skills/ideate@git:20261011.7d38584Pins git:20261011.7d38584 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- av/skills
- Path
ideate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261011.7d38584, committed Oct 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 2, 2026
- Size
- 22,019 bytes
- Repository stars
- 24
- License
- MIT
Timeboxed ideation on a topic where lens-driven proposers generate structurally different ideas, blind critics cull them, and pairwise judges rank the survivors on a tournament ladder instead of 1-10 scores, evolving the leaders until the clock runs out. Use when the user wants to brainstorm, explore ideas, discover features, generate options, or think through possibilities for a specified duration. Triggers on requests like "brainstorm X for 30 minutes", "ideate on X…
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 Generate, cull, and rank ideas on any topic until the clock runs out. Proposers think through assigned lenses from a library of ideation frameworks, critics hunt for fatal flaws, and judges compare ideas two at a time. A ladder turns those comparisons into ratings. Leaders get evolved, unexplored lenses keep getting tried, and a playoff settles the final order. Nobody in this skill gives an idea a score. Ask a model for 1–10 and nearly everything lands on 7 or 8. The ranking becomes noise, and the loop keeps polishing whatever it thought of first. "Which of these two is better?" has an answer even when both ideas are good, so every judgment here is head-to-head. ## Your role You are the **orchestrator**. You: 1. **Manage the clock.** Run `date +%s` before every dispatch batch. 2. **Plan slots.** Decide each generation's lenses, parents, and idea IDs, and write them to the registry. 3. **Dispatch subagents.** Framer, proposers, critics, judges, meta-reviewer, using the prompts below. 4. **Read the ladder.** Run `ladder.py` and log what it says. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add av/skills/ideate@sha256:cba05b2eb2d4ee33The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261011.7d38584, 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_ur4ndugk5fpftgdt)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 2, 2026 and Oct 11, 2026, about one every 162 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261011.7d38584 latest | 2026-10-11 | 7d38584 | 22,019 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260502.72b2ba4 | 2026-05-02 | 72b2ba4 | 11,153 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 (22019 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
av/skills · 24 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ur4ndugk5fpftgdt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=av/skills/ideate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cba05b2eb2d4ee332405770099e1b2243062ea63b58725446b87c3752f81f52c
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.