Generate, Then Execute

Trying to create and judge at the same time is why people stare at blank pages — every idea gets killed before it's finished. This enforces the split the best thinkers use: first a pure divergent pass where evaluation is banned and volume/weirdness is the goal, then a clean switch to a ruthless critic that scores, prunes, and keeps only what's strong. Two modes, never mixed.

What This Skill Produces

• A generation pass — many ideas, fast, with no evaluation, ranking, or "but that won't work" allowed; wild and half-formed ideas welcome
• A hard break — an explicit switch of mode, so judgment doesn't leak backward into generation
• A critique pass — a separate, adversarial read that scores each idea, finds the traps, and prunes hard
• The survivors — the few ideas that made it through both, with why they held

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

• The prompt — what you're generating ideas for
• Roughly how many — a target volume for the generation pass (more than feels comfortable)
• The judging criteria — what "good" means, applied only in the critique pass
• Constraints — real ones (for the critic), not imagined ones (which the generator ignores)