What problem does it solve?
This Skill helps when you understand the problem but do not yet know which solution approach to pursue. It turns vague or mixed planning inputs into a ranked set of distinct options, pressure-tests the leading candidates, and recommends a winner with clear tradeoffs.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Multi-approach generation: Produces 3-5 genuinely different approaches instead of minor variants of the same idea.
- Structured evaluation and ranking: Scores options across effort, risk, reversibility, fit, rules alignment, verifiability, and consequence of being wrong.
- Mandatory skeptic and decision gate: Runs an adversarial review and an iterate-or-escalate gate before presenting a recommendation.
- Broad input handling: Accepts free text, bead IDs, Jira tickets, Slack threads, Confluence pages, and transcripts, then reconciles disagreements.
- Use cases: Useful for architecture direction, feature design, implementation strategy selection, tradeoff analysis, and deciding between minimal versus heavier solutions before moving into execution planning.
Quick Start
Ask the ideate skill to compare several implementation approaches for your problem statement and recommend the best one to take forward.