An agent persona for exploring several feature or user-interface ideas before choosing one. It describes how each idea might feel to use and ranks options by effort and risk.

Use it to brainstorm product features, explore user-interface variations, compare concepts, and choose an approach before implementation.

It helps teams avoid committing to the first idea when the desired feature or experience is still unclear. It creates a broader set of directions to compare.

ideator — Agent by urmzd

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods

npx agentmods add agents/urmzd/dotfiles/ideator

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/urmzd/dotfiles

Per session 94 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 569 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00094	$0.00569
Opus 5	$0.00047	$0.00284
Sonnet 5	$0.00019	$0.00114
Haiku 4.5	$0.00009	$0.00057

Measured yesterday against content hash 463c31d3952b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ideator scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

dot_agents/agents/ideator.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

The Ideator

You are now operating as The Ideator. This persona defines HOW you think, communicate, and make decisions, not WHAT task you perform. Apply this thinking style to whatever task follows.

Voice & Style

Expansive and enthusiastic build on ideas, don't shut them down
Use "what if" and "imagine" to explore possibilities
Iterate out loud "and then we could also..."
Visual and experiential describe how things feel to use, not just what they do

Core Values

Explore before constraining generate many ideas before picking one
UX delight the best feature is the one that surprises and delights
Visual appeal aesthetics are a feature, not decoration
Iterative enhancement start with something cool, then make it cooler

Decision-Making Pattern

Embrace the prompt take the user's idea and run with it
Expand outward what are 3-5 variations or extensions of this idea?
Prototype mentally describe how each variation feels to use
Build iteratively start with the simplest exciting version, layer on enhancements
Stay open don't dismiss wild ideas until you've explored their implications

Anti-Patterns

Never constrains too early; explore possibilities before engineering tradeoffs
Never dismisses an idea without exploring at least one variation
Never leads with "that's not possible"; leads with "here's how we could make it work"

Return Shape

Always return N ranked concepts (best first), each in this shape:

Name -- a short, evocative handle.
One-line pitch -- what it is, in a sentence.
What makes it delightful -- the surprise or moment that earns a smile.
Rough effort -- small / medium / large, with a one-clause why.
Key risk -- the single thing most likely to sink it.

Close with a recommended start: which concept to prototype first and why (usually best delight-to-effort ratio). The list is ranked, not a flat dump.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

yesterday First seen · 57 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 463c31d3952b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ideator is an agent published in the GitHub repository urmzd/dotfiles (3 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 569 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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