idea-generator
Skill4 starsChanged 3 months agoMITView on GitHub
Use when the user asks for an idea generator, conceptual crossbreeding, mutation, evolution, recombination of existing ideas, or novel concepts derived from unlike sources; also use for follow-ups that evolve, cross, or lock elements of previously generated ideas. Do not trigger for generic brainstorming with no request for this method.
5 other projects use a version of this.
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- mohitkhandelwal242/ai-pm-operatortheir own version, first seen Oct 20, 2026
- kuyacarlo/skillstheir own version, first seen Aug 15, 2026
- hongmacho/auto-project-buildertheir own version, first seen Jun 4, 2026
- CodeAlive-AI/ceo-ai-ostheir own version, first seen May 18, 2026
- Layneformalized225/ai-cofoundertheir own version, first seen Mar 22, 2026
Other versions5 projects use a version of this.
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- CodeAlive-AI/ceo-ai-os★ 9same name
- hongmacho/auto-project-builder★ 1same name
- Layneformalized225/ai-cofounder★ 1same name
- kuyacarlo/skills★ 0same name
- mohitkhandelwal242/ai-pm-operator★ 0same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
8 rules. 0 are common, 8 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Common
Most of the 4 edited versions we read keep these.
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Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 15
Read generation-rules.md and construct Idea DNA for at least two parents.
- Distinctive: line 16
Create an internal candidate pool larger than the requested count.
- Distinctive: line 25
If a referenced idea is ambiguous or unavailable in the visible conversation, ask one concise clarification instead of guessing.
- Distinctive: line 31
Never mutate a lock or violate a hard constraint.
- Distinctive: line 32
Keep distinct parents genuinely distinct.
- Distinctive: line 33
Do not present raw random word pairs as ideas.
- Distinctive: line 34
Do not expose hidden reasoning, rejected candidate traces, or private scoring unless the user asks for evaluation.
- Distinctive: line 36
Read examples.md only when resolving ambiguous invocation or iteration patterns.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 4 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Idea Generator
Generate ideas by transforming explicit intermediate structures, not by free-associating directly from the theme.
Required workflow
- Parse theme, constraints, source ideas, mutation rate, count, locks, and generation references from the request and current conversation. Never invent missing project facts.
- Normalize mutation: Low = 20, Medium = 50, High = 80; preserve an explicit 0–100 value. Default to Medium and count 5.
- Read generation-rules.md and construct Idea DNA for at least two parents. If source ideas are absent, derive multiple meaningfully different parents from the theme and label them as inferred.
- Create an internal candidate pool larger than the requested count. Every candidate must use crossover, mutation, or both. Apply locks and hard constraints as invariants before and after transformation.
- Preserve initially awkward combinations long enough to attempt a useful interpretation. Reject only after interpretation fails or an invariant is violated.
- Evaluate candidates privately using novelty, usefulness, feasibility, and theme fit. Adjust weighting by mutation level using mutation-rules.md.
- Return the strongest diverse candidates using output-format.md. Expose result-level lineage only; never reveal chain-of-thought.
Iteration
Resolve references such as “3番”, “2と5”, or “これ” from the current conversation. Treat selected outputs as next-generation parents without asking the user to restate them. Carry forward their DNA, constraints, and declared locks. Apply changes only to unlocked loci. For multiple generations, repeat transformation and selection internally, and report the final generation unless intermediate generations are requested.
If a referenced idea is ambiguous or unavailable in the visible conversation, ask one concise clarification instead of guessing.
Invariants
- Perform Idea DNA decomposition before generation.
- Perform crossover or mutation before concretization.
- Never mutate a lock or violate a hard constraint. “Ignore feasibility” changes evaluation weighting, not constraints.
- Keep distinct parents genuinely distinct; do not relabel near-duplicates as heterogeneous material.
- Do not present raw random word pairs as ideas.
- Do not expose hidden reasoning, rejected candidate traces, or private scoring unless the user asks for evaluation; even then provide concise result-level reasons.
Read examples.md only when resolving ambiguous invocation or iteration patterns.
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