divergelisted

# Diverge — Divergent Option-Generation Engine Break premature convergence. Autoregressive reasoning commits to the first plausible answer; this skill manufactures genuine breadth before any evaluation, then converges deliberately. **Core principle:** Separate generation from judgment. Ideas are generated in ISOLATION (no branch sees another, so none can anchor on another), and only a SEPARATE critic pass is allowed to evaluate. Evaluating while generating is the failure mode this skill exists to prevent. ## Pre-Flight Gate Activation is decided by the frontmatter description alone — this file is read only AFTER the skill has been selected. Nothing here can prevent over-triggering, so this gate is a **post-selection redirect**, not a filter. **Before proceeding, check the ABORT conditions below. If any holds, STOP, say in one line which one fired, and take the redirect instead of fanning out any agents.** Being invoked — including a literal `/diverge`, "brainstorm options", "explore alternatives", or "give me alternatives" — does NOT override an ABORT: the phrasing that selected this skill is not evidence the problem is open. | ABORT when the ask is… | Redirect | |---|---| | Syntax, a definition, a factual lookup, arithmetic, a deterministic transform | Answer directly | | A bug with a single known root cause | `/investigate` | | A decision the user has already made | `/execute` — just build it | | Following an explicit step-by-step instruction | Do the steps | | Low-st