refine-seed

Preparing seed ideas for development involves drafting header fields and identifying gaps to standardize inputs. A human-in-the-loop workflow surfaces related ideas across stages, ensuring the seed aligns with organizational priorities before development begins.

Standardizing idea inputs is achieved by drafting header fields for seed-stage ideas. This standardizes the data structure and validates that a non-empty Original Capture frontmatter exists before the idea enters the development pipeline.

A human-in-the-loop workflow enhances idea management by exposing seed refinement decisions for manual review. It allows teams to verify drafted header fields, align intent with priorities, and finalize the preparation of the seed before development.

Surfacing related ideas across seed, developing, drafting, and refining stages is supported. This helps identify dependencies and scope boundaries by showing connections between the current seed and existing work in the pipeline.

An original capture frontmatter is required to refine a seed idea. The seed must include a non-empty Original Capture field and a designated seed stage to provide the base context needed for drafting header fields and surfacing related ideas.

The limitation of seed refinement is that it cannot finalize header fields autonomously. The process requires a human-in-the-loop step to review drafted metadata, validate priority alignment, and confirm the idea's scope before transitioning to the developing stage.