ideatelisted

# Ideate Answer one question: **which ideas are worth building?** Generate many, critique all of them, and explain only the **survivors**. Picking one and shaping it is the job of `/grill-with-docs`; this skill ends when the user holds a ranked list. Every idea carries a **basis**, the evidence a reader can check. An idea without one is slop, however plausible it sounds. Tag each basis: - `direct:` a line, file, or issue the agent actually read, quoted with its `file:line`. - `external:` named prior art or a known pattern, with its source. - `reasoned:` a first-principles argument, written out in full. ## Process ### 1. Scope The argument is the **focus**: a feature, a flow, a constraint, or nothing. Ideate at full ambition inside the focus, and keep the whole repo as the subject when there is none. When the subject cannot be identified (no argument and no clear project in the working directory), ask one question (through your harness's multiple-choice question tool if it has one, such as `AskUserQuestion` in Claude Code) with these options: a subject the user names, **Surprise me** (each frame picks the subject it finds most interesting), and **Cancel**. Leave solution direction, audience, and success criteria to `/grill-with-docs`. Done when the subject is named or the user picked Surprise me. ### 2. Ground Read the glossary and the ADRs (`docs/agents/domain.md` gives the layout; by default `GLOSSARY.md` and `docs/adr/` at the root), and the README. Then spawn one