Agent skill

Creativity

by TheGoat395 in TheGoat395/Codex-Skills

Generate original ideas or escape fixation. An agent skill from TheGoat395/Codex-Skills.

MITAuto-check passedFrontend & Design

Install Creativity

skills CLI
$ npx skills add TheGoat395/Codex-Skills --skill creativity -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install TheGoat395/Codex-Skills creativity --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/TheGoat395/Codex-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/creativity .claude/skills/creativity && 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
creativity
GitHub stars
126
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
583 words
Files
6 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
24
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Generate original ideas or escape fixation. An agent skill from TheGoat395/Codex-Skills.

  • Works in 7 steps: desired outcome and the human or system… → the central tension, unmet need, or… → fixed constraints versus inherited… → …
  • Frontend & Design work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers Route generation and convergence, Choose the creative task, Frame a useful search space and Control fixation before exposure, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Creativity is an agent skill from TheGoat395/Codex-Skills. Generate original ideas or escape fixation.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 7 other files, including reference files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`, `references/concept-development.md` and `references/convergence-protocol.md`).

It sits in Frontend & Design. The repository describes itself as: Codex-first Agent Skills library for premium frontend, website, motion, accessibility, QA, and handoff workflows. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Frontend & Design work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/creativity”

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. desired outcome and the human or system it serves;
  2. the central tension, unmet need, or failure in the obvious answer;
  3. fixed constraints versus inherited conventions that may be challenged;
  4. the ordinary baseline and the dimensions on which an idea must differ;
  5. available assets, evidence, mechanisms, and implementation capacity;
  6. what success means beyond novelty;
  7. the smallest uncertainty worth exploring first.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit feff772. 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

Creativity loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs, and up to ~5.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 14 tokens; SKILL.md has 583 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~14
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~5.1k

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 TheGoat395/Codex-Skills at commit feff772, republished under its MIT licence (© TheGoat395). 583 words, ~1,228 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/creativity/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 5 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
creativity
description
Generate original ideas or escape fixation.

Creativity

Create possibilities that are meaningfully different, useful for the objective, and honest about evidence. Creativity is a search process: frame the problem, generate varied preinventive material, explore it from several interpretations, develop the strongest candidates, and evaluate only after genuine alternatives exist.

Do not confuse creativity with random novelty, many synonyms, ornamental effects, unsupported claims, or a long unranked list.

Route generation and convergence

For a brief reframe, explore distinct mechanisms and develop the result directly. Respect an already selected direction.

critical-thinking assesses claims; logical-thinking determines what follows. Imagined audience reactions are hypotheses, not validation.

Choose the creative task

Identify what kind of change is needed:

  • Reframe: expose a more productive question, tension, audience, or unit of value.
  • Diverge: produce distinct solution families before committing.
  • Synthesize: combine distant but compatible mechanisms into a coherent whole.
  • Transform: change the representation, sequence, scale, medium, or interaction model.
  • Invent: create a mechanism, format, or concept not implied by the current defaults.
  • Repair: escape a stale, generic, overconstrained, or repeatedly failing direction.

If installed, creative-direction-divergence can own a formal website direction study and cross-domain-creative-divergence a business or campaign brief. Neither is required by this public collection. Otherwise use the search, development and selection references below, adapting evaluation criteria to the brief. Preserve an already selected direction unless revisiting it is in scope.

Frame a useful search space

Record:

  1. desired outcome and the human or system it serves;
  2. the central tension, unmet need, or failure in the obvious answer;
  3. fixed constraints versus inherited conventions that may be challenged;
  4. the ordinary baseline and the dimensions on which an idea must differ;
  5. available assets, evidence, mechanisms, and implementation capacity;
  6. what success means beyond novelty;
  7. the smallest uncertainty worth exploring first.

Write a compact challenge statement:

text
Create [outcome] for [audience/context] while honoring [fixed constraints],
without defaulting to [obvious pattern]. A strong direction changes [decisive dimension]
and can be tested by [observable signal].

If the initial framing presupposes one solution, restate it in functional terms before generating ideas.

Show full SKILL.md (231 more words)Show less

Control fixation before exposure

Examples can improve fluency while anchoring output to their surface features. When originality matters:

  • define functions, constraints, and evaluation dimensions before inspecting examples;
  • describe a reference by the mechanism that works, not by its visible styling or wording;
  • use multiple structurally different references rather than one dominant exemplar;
  • include at least one deliberately distant source domain;
  • state which surface features must not be copied;
  • generate one candidate before exposure when the task permits;
  • test whether the final idea would still exist if the exemplar disappeared.

If the user explicitly requests faithful adaptation or reconstruction, preserve that objective and distinguish required fidelity from creative freedom.

Stop and deliver

Stop when the search has covered genuinely different mechanisms, the leading direction survives the material constraints, further variants repeat existing families, and the next uncertainty is better resolved by a prototype or evidence than more ideation.

Match the output to the user's need:

  • for exploration, present a curated set of distinct developed directions;
  • for a decision, lead with the selected direction, why it wins, its sacrifice, and its smallest test;
  • for implementation, translate the concept into concrete requirements while preserving its organizing mechanism;
  • for an unresolved search, name the competing directions and the observation that would discriminate them.

Label invention, analogy, assumption, inspiration, and verified fact separately. Do not expose private scratch reasoning; show the useful creative structure and result.

© TheGoat395, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 5 other files (references) in skills/creativity of TheGoat395/Codex-Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • references/concept-development.md
  • references/convergence-protocol.md
  • references/creative-search-methods.md
  • references/selection-validation.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit feff772

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Questions about Creativity

What does Creativity do?

Generate original ideas or escape fixation. An agent skill from TheGoat395/Codex-Skills. Creativity is an agent skill from TheGoat395/Codex-Skills. Generate original ideas or escape fixation.

When should I use Creativity?

Creativity fits situations like: frontend & Design work in your project.

How do I install Creativity in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add TheGoat395/Codex-Skills --skill creativity -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/creativity in TheGoat395/Codex-Skills) into .claude/skills/creativity in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Creativity in Codex?

Run `npx skills add TheGoat395/Codex-Skills --skill creativity -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/creativity in TheGoat395/Codex-Skills) into .agents/skills/creativity in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Creativity 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 TheGoat395/Codex-Skills --skill creativity -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/creativity, .gemini/skills/creativity, .github/skills/creativity and .opencode/skills/creativity in your project.

What does Creativity need to run?

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

Does Creativity 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 Creativity 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 Creativity use?

Creativity 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 Creativity use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 3.9k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Creativity?

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Who maintains Creativity?

TheGoat395 (a GitHub user) maintains it in TheGoat395/Codex-Skills, which has 126 GitHub stars. The repository holds 24 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 11, 2026.

Source: TheGoat395/Codex-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.