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ideate

Timeboxed ideation on a topic using propose-and-critique subagent pairs. Use when the user wants to brainstorm, explore ideas, discover features, generate options, or think through possibilities for a specified duration. Triggers on requests like "brainstorm X for 30 minutes", "ideate on X", "spend an hour thinking about X", "what features should we build", "explore options for X".

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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.

The content is a well-organized orchestration skill with strong workflow clarity (explicit time-check validation gates and stall-recovery feedback loops) and good actionability via concrete prompts and commands. It is somewhat verbose due to repeated reinforcement of the timebox discipline, and as a self-contained single-file skill it does not exercise progressive disclosure across files.

Suggestions

Consolidate the repeated timebox-discipline messaging from 'The Iron Law', 'Preventing Premature Exit', and 'Red Flags' into a single section to reduce redundancy and save tokens.

Trim 'Steering the Proposer' enumerated sub-bullets that restate obvious reasoning, keeping only the steering directives that Claude would not infer on its own.

If the proposer/critic prompt templates grow further, consider extracting them into a references/ file and linking from SKILL.md to improve progressive disclosure.

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Conciseness

Mostly efficient and well-organized but includes some redundancy across sections — e.g., the 'Iron Law', 'Preventing Premature Exit', and 'Red Flags' all restate the 'keep going until the clock runs out' message in different forms.

3 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete executable guidance (`date +%s`, explicit progress-file path, full proposer/critic prompt templates, step-by-step dispatch), with only minor gaps (the subagent dispatch mechanism itself is left to Claude's judgment).

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Clear multi-step sequence with an explicit time-check validation checkpoint before every dispatch, a feedback loop for stall recovery, and a Quick Reference checklist; the clock-based termination gate is a strong validation checkpoint.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-structured single-file skill with clear section headers, but no bundle files are provided and no references to external materials, so progressive disclosure across files is neither demonstrated nor needed; structure is good but no one-level-deep references exist.

3 / 5

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Description

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

The description is excellent: it states concrete capabilities, includes natural trigger phrases with synonyms and quoted examples, and clearly answers both 'what' and 'when'. It is distinctive and concise with no fluff.

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Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — 'Timeboxed ideation', 'propose-and-critique subagent pairs', 'brainstorm, explore ideas, discover features, generate options' — with comprehensive coverage of the skill's capabilities.

5 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Timeboxed ideation... using propose-and-critique subagent pairs') and when ('Use when the user wants to brainstorm... Triggers on requests like...') with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Comprehensive coverage of natural user phrases including synonyms and quoted examples like 'brainstorm X for 30 minutes', 'ideate on X', 'spend an hour thinking about X', 'what features should we build', 'explore options for X'.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Clear niche — timeboxed ideation via subagent pairs — with distinct duration-based triggers unlikely to overlap with other skills.

5 / 5

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Validation

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Validation16 / 16 Passed

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