ideate

ideate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from 0xBeycan/genesis. It costs 100 tokens per session (524 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-and-debugging method that explores several genuinely different options before choosing one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Comparing product ideas, design directions, architecture choices, and solutions to debugging dead ends, then recording rejected options.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of settling on the first workable idea when a feature, name, architecture, or diagnosis has meaningful alternatives.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Comparing product ideas, design directions, architecture choices, and solutions to debugging dead ends, then recording rejected options.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/0xbeycan/genesis/ideate
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.

Any agent
npx skills add 0xBeycan/genesis --skill ideate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0xBeycan/genesis

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 524 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00100 $0.00524
Opus 5.5 $0.00040 $0.00210
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00052

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 51b68e7d2d43, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ideate 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 2mo ago.

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.

templates/skills/ideate/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

Ideate — diverge before you converge

An agent's default failure is that the first workable idea wins. This skill is the antidote: a short, deliberate divergence step before a commitment — never instead of one.

When to use

Decisions with real design freedom: a product or feature angle, a name, a design-language direction, an architecture fork with several viable shapes, a debugging dead-end. Also whenever the user asks for alternatives.

When not to use: implementation style (boring wins — ponytail), decisions already constrained to one viable shape, reversible trivia.

Steps

  1. Fix the constraints first. What MUST hold (from AGENTS.md, the vision, the budget)? Constraints are not options — write them down.
  2. Generate 3–5 genuinely different options — different shapes, not variants of one; include one deliberate wildcard from outside the obvious pattern. Search the web if the space is unfamiliar.
  3. Score against the constraints and goals — one line per option, honest costs included.
  4. Converge to ONE. Say why it wins, in a sentence.
  5. Record the rejects: a docs/memory/decisions.md line; an ADR when the fork was real (write-adr). Rejected alternatives are the highest-signal part of the record.

Notes

  • Division of labor: clean-code = the shape of code · ponytail = the amount of code · ideate = the option space before the commitment. They chain, never clash: ideate picks the what; ponytail minimizes the how.
  • Diverge on the WHAT, stay boring on the HOW.
  • Time-boxed: this is a step, not a session. If the options don't meaningfully differ, say so and move on — forced variety is noise.
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.

  1. 2mo ago First seen · 43 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 51b68e7d2d43

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ideate is a skill published in the GitHub repository 0xBeycan/genesis (12 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 524 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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