idea-to-canvas
Installation
SKILL.md
Turn @ into a standalone Cursor Canvas that helps the team quickly understand and align on how we are going to build this.
Accept any starting point: a rough idea, a shower thought, a Slack thread dump, meeting notes, a decision log, a product brief, a PRD fragment, a design doc, an RFC, or a tech spec. The less structured the input, the more the skill must do the structuring work.
This is primarily a knowledge-transfer artifact — not an approval workflow, debate space, or prettier copy of the input.
Core objective: Make what the author knows as easy as humanly possible for the team to absorb without losing important meaning, decisions, constraints, or implementation direction.
Before building the canvas, identify:
- The problem and why it matters
- The intended outcome
- The core mental model
- The proposed system and how its parts work together
- The key flows, states, boundaries, and ownership
- Important decisions and their reasoning
- Constraints, risks, assumptions, and explicit non-goals
- The implementation sequence and what each team or component owns
- Details needed for alignment versus details that can be progressively disclosed