ideate — diverge before you converge

/ideate — generate ideas for THIS repo (reads its AGENTS.md/README) /ideate <topic|problem> — generate ideas for an arbitrary problem, no repo needed

Answer one question: what could this become that isn't obvious yet — and which of those directions actually deserves effort? Both halves matter. A session that only sprays ideas is a whiteboard; one that judges before it has range is just the first idea wearing a verdict. The deliverable is a short list of directions each carrying its own reason to live or die.

The enemy the whole skill is built against is premature convergence — latching onto the first plausible idea and spending the session polishing it. Every step below exists to hold divergence open long enough to be worth converging on.

Step 0 — Frame the ground

You cannot diverge from nothing; fix a starting point first.