Brainstorming
xpinjection/test-driven-spring-boot
You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior.
Generate diverse solution candidates with category-spanning ideation methods and rotation.
Install Ideate
$ npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill ideate -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install athola/claude-night-market ideate --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/tome/skills/ideate .claude/skills/ideate && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "ideate" agent skill from https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market/tree/master/plugins/tome/skills/ideate into .claude/skills/ideate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ideate", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market/tree/master/plugins/tome/skills/ideateType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill ideate -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install athola/claude-night-market ideate --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/tome/skills/ideate .agents/skills/ideate && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "ideate" agent skill from https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market/tree/master/plugins/tome/skills/ideate into .agents/skills/ideate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ideate", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill ideate -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install athola/claude-night-market ideate --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/tome/skills/ideate .cursor/skills/ideate && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "ideate" agent skill from https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market/tree/master/plugins/tome/skills/ideate into .cursor/skills/ideate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ideate", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market.git --path plugins/tome/skills/ideate--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill ideate -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install athola/claude-night-market ideate --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/tome/skills/ideate .gemini/skills/ideate && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "ideate" agent skill from https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market/tree/master/plugins/tome/skills/ideate into .gemini/skills/ideate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ideate", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install athola/claude-night-market ideateInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill ideate -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/tome/skills/ideate .github/skills/ideate && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "ideate" agent skill from https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market/tree/master/plugins/tome/skills/ideate into .github/skills/ideate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ideate", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill ideate -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install athola/claude-night-market ideate --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/tome/skills/ideate .opencode/skills/ideate && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "ideate" agent skill from https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market/tree/master/plugins/tome/skills/ideate into .opencode/skills/ideate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ideate", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
ideate- GitHub stars
- 342
- Used in
- 1 other repo
- Token cost
- ~1.4k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 713 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 159
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Generate diverse solution candidates with category-spanning ideation methods and rotation.
- Works in 6 steps: Pick how many approaches you want (3 to… → Select methods spanning distinct… → Apply each method's reasoning prompt to… → …
- Stuck on a design
- SKILL.md covers When NOT To Use, The one design rule, Catalog and Workflow, plus 4 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Ideate is an agent skill from athola/claude-night-market. Generate diverse solution candidates with category-spanning ideation methods and rotation. Use when stuck on a design or fighting repetitive LLM output.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Agent Workflows, covering Brainstorming. The repository describes itself as: 23 Claude Code plugins: TDD enforcement hooks, git/PR workflows, spec-driven development, code review, project lifecycle, fix-from-error, maintenance automation, context… The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Stuck on a design
- Fighting repetitive LLM output
Example prompts
- “/ideate”
Workflow steps
6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Pick how many approaches you want (3 to 5 is the useful range).
- Select methods spanning distinct categories
- Apply each method's reasoning prompt to the problem. Generate ideas
- On a second pass, rotate: select_methods(n, exclude=used_ids) or
- Score the candidates with score_idea (weighted criteria per
- Report the final set with rationale and scores.
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9f3eb00. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Ideate loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 40 tokens; SKILL.md has 713 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from athola/claude-night-market at commit 9f3eb00, republished under its MIT licence (© athola). 713 words, ~1,441 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/ideate/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- ideate
- description
- Generate diverse solution candidates with category-spanning ideation methods and rotation. Use when stuck on a design or fighting repetitive LLM output.
- category
- research
- tags
- ideation, creativity, diversity, mode-collapse, problem-solving
- estimated_tokens
- 500
- model_hint
- standard
Ideation: Diverse Methods With Rotation
Diversity is a selection problem, not a volume problem.
Generating ten ideas from one mental frame yields ten variations of the same idea. The fix is to ideate from different categories of method, then rotate methods across passes so the next round does not repeat the last. This is the documented lever against LLM mode collapse, not a brainstorming ritual.
When NOT To Use
- Surveying what already exists (use
tome:research) - Cross-domain analogies specifically (use
tome:triz)
The one design rule
Structure the reasoning, not the output.
"The Price of Format" (arXiv 2505.18949) found that rigid output templates collapse output diversity, while reasoning scaffolds raise it. So each method hands you a reasoning prompt. Do not force the ideas into a fixed schema while generating; impose structure only when reporting the final set.
Catalog
Nine methods that port to technical problem-solving, each tagged with an honest evidence grade (see Sources below):
| Method | Category | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| SCAMPER | transformation | weak |
| SIT task unification | transformation | mixed |
| Morphological analysis (Zwicky) | decomposition | mixed |
| SIT subtraction | decomposition | mixed |
| Cross-domain analogy (TRIZ, Synectics) | analogical | mixed |
| Inversion (reverse brainstorming, pre-mortem) | inversion | anecdotal |
| Constraint provocation | perturbation | anecdotal |
| Devil's advocacy | adversarial | mixed |
| Multiple working hypotheses | hypothesis | mixed |
The grades are deliberately conservative. Individual-method evidence
is thin; the value is the diverse-selection-plus-rotation pattern, not
any single method. For the structured analogical form, use
Skill(tome:triz). For finding an implied-but-empty cell in a
concept space, map the field and its hidden optimization axis first,
then apply generation methods to fill the gap.
Workflow
- Pick how many approaches you want (3 to 5 is the useful range).
- Select methods spanning distinct categories:
select_methods(n)fromtome.channels.ideationreturns methods from different categories by construction. - Apply each method's reasoning prompt to the problem. Generate ideas freely; do not normalize them into a schema yet.
- On a second pass, rotate:
select_methods(n, exclude=used_ids)orrotation_plan(passes, n_per_pass)so no method repeats until the catalog is exhausted. - Score the candidates with
score_idea(weighted criteria perSkill(leyline:evaluation-framework)). Novelty claimed without evidence is capped, so "novel" must be earned, not asserted. - Report the final set with rationale and scores.
Scoring
score_idea(scores, novelty_evidence=False) applies weighted criteria
(novelty 0.25, fit 0.20, feasibility 0.20, simplicity 0.15,
reversibility 0.10, impact 0.10) and an anti-inflation rule: a novelty
score of 8 or higher without supporting evidence is capped to 7. Pass
novelty_evidence=True only when you have checked for prior art and
found the idea genuinely new.
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Anti-goals
- Do not generate many ideas from one method and call it diverse.
- Do not impose a rigid output schema during generation; it collapses diversity.
- Do not present anecdotal-evidence methods as proven; cite the grade.
- Do not import the full 20-method bundle; the catalog is curated on purpose.
Sources
The diversity rationale and method evidence grades draw on:
- Verbalized Sampling (arXiv 2510.01171): distributional prompting for 1.6 to 2.1x diversity gains, training-free.
- The Price of Format (arXiv 2505.18949): rigid output schemas collapse generation diversity. This is the basis for the reasoning-prompt-not-schema rule above.
- Barriers to Diversity in LLM-Generated Ideas (arXiv 2602.20408): chain-of-thought reduces fixation; diverse personas restore collective diversity.
- The originality and SCAMPER / morphological-analysis education literature underpins the per-method evidence grades.
- Innovation Paradox (Shi et al., Design Science 2024): patent analysis of 4M+ concepts found originality declined 31% from 1981-2016 as concept space expanded. Cognitive burden drives clustering near familiar terrain rather than the edge.
- Devil's advocacy: Schwenk, OBHDP 47(1), 1990, a meta-analysis in which devil's advocacy beat the expert-plan approach. Graded mixed because one model arguing both sides is weaker than two people.
- Multiple working hypotheses: Lord, Lepper and Preston, JPSP 47(6), 1984, where considering the opposite corrected biased judgment. The prompt stays light on purpose: in Dhami, Belton and Mandel, Applied Cognitive Psychology 33(6), 2019, the full hypothesis matrix (ACH) did not improve analyst accuracy.
Methods surveyed and not catalogued, with grades, are in ADR-0024.
Exit Criteria
- At least 3 candidate approaches were generated, each from a
method in a distinct category (verifiable: the methods used span
>= 3categories fromlist_categories()). - A second pass, if run, used
excludeorrotation_planso no method repeated before the catalog was exhausted. - Each candidate carries a weighted score from
score_idea, with any uncapped novelty backed by an explicit prior-art check. - The final report structures the output; generation did not.
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Files
Just SKILL.md in plugins/tome/skills/ideate of athola/claude-night-market.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9f3eb00
Used in 1 other repository
We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in athola/claude-night-market, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.
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Questions about Ideate
What does Ideate do?
Generate diverse solution candidates with category-spanning ideation methods and rotation. Ideate is an agent skill from athola/claude-night-market. Generate diverse solution candidates with category-spanning ideation methods and rotation.
When should I use Ideate?
Ideate fits situations like: stuck on a design; fighting repetitive LLM output.
How do I install Ideate in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill ideate -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/tome/skills/ideate in athola/claude-night-market) into .claude/skills/ideate in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Ideate in Codex?
Run `npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill ideate -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/tome/skills/ideate in athola/claude-night-market) into .agents/skills/ideate in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Ideate in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill ideate -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/ideate, .gemini/skills/ideate, .github/skills/ideate and .opencode/skills/ideate in your project.
What does Ideate need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Ideate is instructions for the agent only.
Does Ideate access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Ideate safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Ideate use?
Ideate is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Ideate use?
About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Ideate?
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Who maintains Ideate?
athola (a GitHub user) maintains it in athola/claude-night-market, which has 342 GitHub stars. The repository holds 159 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.
Source: athola/claude-night-market on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.