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Idea Darwin

by sickn33 in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

Darwinian idea evolution engine — toss rough ideas onto an evolution island, let them compete, crossbreed, and mutate through structured rounds to surface your strongest concepts.

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Install Idea Darwin

skills CLI
$ npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill idea-darwin -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills idea-darwin --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/idea-darwin .claude/skills/idea-darwin && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Facts

Skill name
idea-darwin
GitHub stars
47k
Used in
2 other repos
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
454 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,493
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Darwinian idea evolution engine — toss rough ideas onto an evolution island, let them compete, crossbreed, and mutate through structured rounds to surface your strongest concepts.

  • Works in 4 steps: Write Your Ideas → Initialize Your Island → Start Evolving → …
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, When to Use This Skill, Core Concepts and Step-by-Step Guide, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Idea Darwin is an agent skill from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. Darwinian idea evolution engine — toss rough ideas onto an evolution island, let them compete, crossbreed, and mutate through structured rounds to surface your strongest concepts.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: AAS Core is the local, agent-first control plane for complete catalog discovery, agent-owned selection, stack validation, and planning, backed by 2,400+ agentic skills. Includes… The licence is MIT.

Example prompts

  • “/idea-darwin”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Write Your Ideas
  2. Initialize Your Island
  3. Start Evolving
  4. Keep Feeding the Island

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 680176d. 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 (its code samples are markdown).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • github.com

    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

Idea Darwin loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 48 tokens; SKILL.md has 454 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~48
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills at commit 680176d, republished under its MIT licence (© sickn33). 454 words, ~1,063 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/idea-darwin/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
idea-darwin
description
Darwinian idea evolution engine — toss rough ideas onto an evolution island, let them compete, crossbreed, and mutate through structured rounds to surface your strongest concepts.
risk
safe
source
community
date_added
2026-04-07

Idea Darwin Engine

A round-based idea iteration system that treats ideas as competing organisms — scoring, selecting, crossing, and evolving them through structured rounds to surface the strongest concepts.

Overview

Most idea management tools are filing cabinets: they store ideas, tag them, and let them rot. Idea Darwin flips the paradigm — instead of organizing ideas, it lets them compete. Every idea is a living species on an evolution island. Each round, the fittest get deepened, different ideas cross-pollinate to produce unexpected hybrids, and external stimuli trigger mutations.

When to Use This Skill

  • Use when you have many scattered ideas and need to systematically evaluate and develop them
  • Use when you want to discover unexpected connections between ideas from different domains
  • Use when you need structured iteration rather than one-shot brainstorming
  • Use when you want a scoring framework to prioritize which ideas deserve more investment

Core Concepts

Evolution Island Metaphor

Your ideas are alive on this island. Like organisms, they follow three core laws:

  1. Evolution — Each round, the system deepens the most viable ideas through structured research: filling logical gaps, clarifying paths, identifying risks.
  2. Crossbreeding — The system cross-pollinates different ideas. A technical approach from work meets an observation from daily life, producing directions you never imagined.
  3. Mutation — External stimuli (industry news, theories, conversations) trigger mutations, spawning entirely new species.
Species Cards

Every idea gets a structured card recording: core question, full description, lineage (parent/child IDs), 6-dimensional scores, and change history.

6-Dimensional Scoring
DimensionWeightWhat It Measures
Novelty10%Genuine breakthrough or repetition?
Feasibility20%Technically and resource-wise achievable?
Value20%Impact if successful?
Logic20%Internally consistent, no gaps?
Cross Potential10%Can spark something new when combined?
Verifiability20%Can we design a validation path?
Show full SKILL.md (166 more words)Show less
Idea Lifecycle
seed → exploring → refining → crossing → validated → dormant

The user always has final say on all life-or-death decisions. The system only recommends.

Step-by-Step Guide

1. Write Your Ideas

Create an ideas.md file:

markdown
## Personal knowledge base that learns my style
I want a system that reads everything I write and gradually learns how I think.

## Commute-to-podcast converter
Record voice memos during my commute, auto-convert them into podcast scripts.
2. Initialize Your Island
/idea-darwin init
3. Start Evolving
/idea-darwin round
4. Keep Feeding the Island

Append new ideas to ideas.md, add environmental variables to stimuli.md.

Examples

Example 1: Initialize
/idea-darwin init --budget 8 --actions 3
Example 2: Run Multiple Rounds
/idea-darwin round 3
Example 3: Manage Ideas
/idea-darwin dormant IDEA-0005
/idea-darwin wake IDEA-0005

Best Practices

  • Do: Write ideas as rough as you want — the system structures them
  • Do: Add external stimuli to prevent idea convergence
  • Do: Run disruption rounds to surface overlooked ideas
  • Don't: Over-curate initial ideas — let evolution filter
  • Don't: Ignore the "Decisions Needed" section in briefings

Additional Resources

  • GitHub Repository
  • Available in 3 languages: English, Chinese, Japanese
  • ClawHub: clawhub install idea-darwin

Limitations

  • Use this skill only when the task clearly matches the scope described above.
  • Do not treat the output as a substitute for environment-specific validation, testing, or expert review.
  • Stop and ask for clarification if required inputs, permissions, safety boundaries, or success criteria are missing.

© sickn33, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/idea-darwin of sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 680176d

Used in 2 other repositories

We found 8 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 2 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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IdeaChorus-AIDLC/Chorus1.2k—~7.2kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0
Marketing Ideasdavila7/claude-code-templates32k4 repos~6.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Idea Darwin

What does Idea Darwin do?

Darwinian idea evolution engine — toss rough ideas onto an evolution island, let them compete, crossbreed, and mutate through structured rounds to surface your strongest concepts. Idea Darwin is an agent skill from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. Darwinian idea evolution engine — toss rough ideas onto an evolution island, let them compete, crossbreed, and mutate through structured rounds to surface your strongest concepts.

How do I install Idea Darwin in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill idea-darwin -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/idea-darwin in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills) into .claude/skills/idea-darwin in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Idea Darwin in Codex?

Run `npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill idea-darwin -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/idea-darwin in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills) into .agents/skills/idea-darwin in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Idea Darwin 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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill idea-darwin -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/idea-darwin, .gemini/skills/idea-darwin, .github/skills/idea-darwin and .opencode/skills/idea-darwin in your project.

What does Idea Darwin need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Idea Darwin is instructions for the agent only.

Does Idea Darwin access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: github.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Idea Darwin 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 Idea Darwin use?

Idea Darwin 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 Idea Darwin use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.3k 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 Idea Darwin?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Idea Darwin: Idea Refinement (addyosmani/agent-skills, 103k stars), Darwin Mode Harness Evolution (ruvnet/RuView, 97k stars), Idea Discovery (wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep, 17k stars) and Idea (Chorus-AIDLC/Chorus, 1.2k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Idea Darwin?

sickn33 (a GitHub user) maintains it in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, which has 47,379 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,493 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.