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ce-ideate

Generate and evaluate grounded ideas. Use when the user wants ideas, improvements, or surprising directions before choosing one to develop. Not for refining an idea they already have (ce-brainstorm) or judging one already on the table (ce-pov).

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-structured orchestration skill with clear phases, required-read gates, and excellent progressive disclosure via verified one-level-deep references. Could tighten the restated config blocks and add an explicit artifact-write feedback loop.

Suggestions

Tighten the ce-docs-root and ce-config-layers fenced blocks; the resolution rules are stated twice and could be condensed without losing the validation steps.

Add an explicit validate->fix->retry checkpoint for the artifact write (e.g., verify the ideation file parses/renders before declaring Done), since the skill writes batch output automatically.

Pull one or two of the most concrete dispatch specifics out of the referenced files into the body so the core loop is actionable without a required read.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

Dense and information-rich with no concept over-explanation, but the restated ce-docs-root and ce-config-layers blocks add some verbosity that could be trimmed.

4 / 5

Actionability

Concrete executable directives (git rev-parse --show-toplevel, /tmp/compound-engineering-<uid>, 8-hex run-id, explicit precedence) are present, though much operational detail is deferred to referenced files.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Clearly sequenced phases with read-gate checkpoints and a Done contract, but no explicit validate->fix->retry feedback loop on the artifact write itself.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Overview body points to one-level-deep references (output-mode, scope-gates, grounding, decomposition, divergent-ideation, post-ideation-workflow, universal-ideation), all verified present and clearly signaled.

5 / 5

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17

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20

Passed

Description

87%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description with concrete actions, natural trigger phrases, explicit when/what, and clear disambiguation against sibling skills. Minor room for a broader action and synonym list.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

States two concrete actions ('Generate and evaluate grounded ideas') plus the decision framing, which sits above the 3-anchor's '1-2 concrete actions' but short of the comprehensive multi-action list at 5.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Generate and evaluate grounded ideas') and when ('Use when the user wants ideas, improvements, or surprising directions before choosing one to develop') with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural user-language triggers ('ideas', 'improvements', 'surprising directions', 'before choosing one to develop') map to real phrasings, but the synonym set is not exhaustive enough for a 5.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Explicit negative-scope ('Not for refining an idea they already have (ce-brainstorm) or judging one already on the table (ce-pov)') carves a clear niche with minimal conflict risk.

5 / 5

Total

18

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20

Passed

Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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Total

15

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16

Passed

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EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin
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