ideate

ideate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from danicat/speedgrapher. It costs 104 tokens per session (2,884 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A discovery and outlining method for technical writing. It interviews an engineer one question at a time, or restructures existing notes and files using an inverted pyramid, which puts the most important information first.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan blog posts, README files, agent instructions, and other technical documents.
Why use it?
It helps prevent articles and documentation from being based on vague summaries or poorly ordered material. It draws out real incidents, evidence, failed ideas, and trade-offs before drafting.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan blog posts, README files, agent instructions, and other technical documents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danicat/speedgrapher/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 danicat/speedgrapher --skill ideate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danicat/speedgrapher

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for ideate

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Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,884 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 $0.00104 $0.02884
Opus 5.5 $0.00042 $0.01154
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00577
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00288

Measured 4d ago against content hash 28ef4f9a7b3b, 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 4d 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.

skills/ideate/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ideate: Socratic Discovery & Inverted-Pyramid Outlining

ideate unifies two foundational pre-writing disciplines: Socratic technical interviewing (extracting high-information-gain engineering reality before a single paragraph is drafted) and Inverted-Pyramid Information Architecture (ordering every document by descending reader value).


1. Mode Selection: Discovery Interview vs. Direct Structural Outlining

Choose your entry point based on how much raw material is already in context:

  1. Interactive Socratic Interview (Default for New Blog Posts & Articles):
    • When the user wants to brainstorm a post or says "interview me about X", conduct a focused Socratic interview one question at a time to extract all 4 Pillars before generating the outline.
  2. Direct Inverted-Pyramid Outlining / Structural Refactoring:
    • When the user already provides raw notes, code files, or an existing README.md / SKILL.md / draft to restructure, inspect the workspace artifacts directly and organize them into the target inverted-pyramid sequence.

2. Socratic Discovery: The 4 Pillars of Information Gain

Generic AI articles fail because they summarize public documentation and describe only the happy path. Your interview must extract four pillars of first-hand engineering experience:

Pillar What to Extract Example Probing Question
1. The Triggering Incident / Problem The specific production alert, customer bug, latency ceiling, or developer friction that forced action. "What was the exact failure metric or bottleneck that convinced you the existing implementation wouldn't hold up?"
2. Failed Hypotheses & Dead Ends The first one or two intuitive fixes that did not work, and the mechanism that broke them. "Before you landed on the final design, what was your first instinct—and how did that attempt fail?"
3. Concrete Artifacts Verbatim error logs, stack traces, pprof profiles, minimal before/after diffs, benchmark tables, or architecture diagrams. "Do you have the panic stack trace, benchstat output, or minimal code diff we can anchor the lead section around?"
4. Breakthrough & Engineering Trade-offs The specific insight that solved the problem, the measurable outcome, and the new operational boundaries introduced. "Once the fix went live, how did the metrics move—and under what conditions should another team avoid this approach?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 175 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A 28ef4f9a7b3b

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ideate is a skill published in the GitHub repository danicat/speedgrapher (51 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 2,884 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 2026-10-17.

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