ideation-engine
Installation
SKILL.md
ideation-engine — the ideation kit and the Value Map
Sixth station of the pipeline, and the first one that works the solution space. It runs in two modes around a workshop of humans: DIVERGE prepares everything so that a team ideates well, and CONVERGE turns what that team produced and decided into the Value Map and the prototype brief. Generic domain example: a B2B appointment-management app for small clinics, whose customer profile came out of twelve real interviews.
If it is not obvious which mode applies, it asks before anything else: are we preparing the workshop, or processing its results?
When it is invoked
| When | From / to |
|---|---|
| The customer profile is validated | Entry from insight-engine (.claude/skills/insight-engine/SKILL.md) — the right side of the profile is what this station ideates against |
| The workshop happened | Entry from the workshop itself: the humans ideated and voted, outside any agent |
| The Value Map and the prototype brief are written | Exit toward prd (.claude/skills/prd/SKILL.md) — the scope of the strategic layer starts from what the team chose — and toward visual-designer (.claude/skills/visual-designer/SKILL.md), which turns the prototype brief into the spec of the piece |
| With no prior Insight Brief | Invocable on its own, with a customer profile pasted in as the minimum input: with no profile there is no ideation — ideating with no evidence of the problem is decorating assumptions |