ideate

# Ideate — fuzzy idea → locked concept + roadmap `ideate` is the **upstream partner to the `prompt-pack` skill**. It takes an idea that's still fuzzy — or an existing project you want to evaluate and improve — and runs it through a disciplined funnel that ends in one durable artifact: a **`CONCEPT_BRIEF.md`** holding the locked concept, the honest verdict, and a phased roadmap. That brief is exactly what `prompt-pack` consumes to produce build prompts. The whole pipeline: > **ideate → `CONCEPT_BRIEF.md` → prompt-pack → execute** This skill encodes a method reverse-engineered from real, successful idea→ship journeys — *including the mistakes those journeys made*, so it improves on them rather than repeating them. ## Why this exists (the problem it solves) Left unstructured, ideation with an AI fails in predictable ways: - **It specs too early.** A full data model and endpoints get written before anyone asks "is this even a good idea?" — so effort pours into an unvalidated concept. - **It forgets.** The AI re-derives the same "is this a business?" assessment every session; the user re-pastes context; decisions never settle. (This is the single biggest failure.) - **It has no finish line.** No success metric, no kill criterion — so the concept mutates forever and no one can say whether it's working. - **It over-commits.** A giant roadmap gets locked before the first piece is validated. - **It drifts** (when improving an existing thing) away from the original it was suppose...