Ideate Agent Skill

>- Take a fuzzy idea (or an existing thing you want to improve) through a disciplined funnel — explore → pressure-test → converge — and produce one honest co-founder (permission to overrule you), forces a success metric and a kill criterion before any roadmap, and hands off cleanly to the prompt-pack skill for building. ALWAYS invoke when the user says any of "help me figure out what to build", "I have an idea for…", "is this idea any good", "pressure-test this idea", "should I build / should I rebuild X", "evaluate whether my app/idea is worth building", "where are we really at", "is this idea or app worth pursuing", "iron out / scope / spec this concept", or "turn my idea into a plan/roadmap". Also invoke proactively when someone is reasoning about WHAT to build or WHETHER an idea is worth it — before any code or prompt pack exists.

12k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/nelsonwerd/idea-to-ship-skills --skill ideate

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How to use it

Copy the folder

Take nelsonwerd/ideate from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.