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## Customization Before executing, check for user customizations at: `~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/Ideate/` # Ideate — The Cognitive Progress Engine ## What It Does Ideate is a loop-controlled evolutionary creativity engine. It runs multiple cycles of consuming, dreaming, stealing, breeding, and testing ideas over simulated time scales from hours to decades, driven by a first-class Loop Controller and a Lamarckian Meta-Learner. It produces ranked novel solution candidates with full provenance — where each idea came from and how it evolved. ## The Problem A single-pass brainstorm collapses fast. Ask a model for ideas and it converges on the obvious handful, biased toward its training distribution, because soft temperature tweaks just reshuffle the same probability mass. You get variations on one theme, not genuinely different directions. Hard problems need ideas that came from somewhere else — a foreign domain, an unexpected recombination, a constraint flipped on its head — and they need a way to kill the weak ones and breed the strong ones across many rounds. One pass can't do that. ## How It Works This is an evolutionary *system*, not a single-pass tool. **This is NOT BeCreative** — BeCreative is a single-pass diversity tool. Ideate runs multiple cycles driven by a Loop Controller and a Lamarckian Meta-Learner. ## The Core Insight Human creativity reduces to 5 irreducible functions: | Function | What It Does | Human Analog | |----------|------------