ce-ideate
Generates and evaluates grounded ideas before one is chosen to develop.
- Kind
- Skill
- Works with
- Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Any agent
- Source
- EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin @ 786ac0194183
- Path
- skills/ce-ideate/SKILL.md
- License
- MIT
- Jobs
- Planning
InstallInstall it from a plugin marketplace.
/plugin install compound-engineering
# Generate Improvement Ideas **The current year is 2026** — use it when dating documents and checking recent artifacts. `ce-ideate` runs before `ce-brainstorm`. This skill answers "which ideas are worth exploring?" `ce-brainstorm` then answers what one chosen idea should mean. `ce-plan` answers how it gets built. **Done:** a ranked ideation artifact is written to `<root>/ideation/` when that root is present, else to a CE temp path. Every idea generated has been critiqued, and the survivors are explained. The user is left holding the next-steps menu. No requirements, plans, or code. ## Boundaries 1. **Ground before ideating.** No advice detached from the repo. 2. **Generate many, critique all, explain survivors only.** Generate the full candidate list before critiquing any of it. Rejection is explicit and carries a reason; this is not optimistic ranking. 3. **Send the user to brainstorming for action.** Never skip from ideation output to planning. …