ideate

ideate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from duthaho/skillhub. It costs 213 tokens per session (1,264 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided way to generate and judge ideas for a software project or an open-ended problem. It first learns the project's purpose, then explores several directions before choosing which deserve effort.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore new product directions, think through a blank-slate problem, or find ideas grounded in an existing repository's documentation and open issues.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of settling on the first reasonable idea and spending time improving it before considering better options.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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.

agentmods badge for ideate

README.md
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Per session 213 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,264 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00213 $0.01264
Opus 5 $0.00106 $0.00632
Sonnet 5 $0.00043 $0.00253
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00126

Measured 3d ago against content hash d65fcc7ec87e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 3d 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.

.claude/skills/ideate/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ideate — diverge before you converge

/ideate — generate ideas for THIS repo (reads its AGENTS.md/README) /ideate <topic|problem> — generate ideas for an arbitrary problem, no repo needed

Answer one question: what could this become that isn't obvious yet — and which of those directions actually deserves effort? Both halves matter. A session that only sprays ideas is a whiteboard; one that judges before it has range is just the first idea wearing a verdict. The deliverable is a short list of directions each carrying its own reason to live or die.

The enemy the whole skill is built against is premature convergence — latching onto the first plausible idea and spending the session polishing it. Every step below exists to hold divergence open long enough to be worth converging on.

Step 0 — Frame the ground

You cannot diverge from nothing; fix a starting point first.

  • With a repo (/ideate alone): read AGENTS.md (the map skill writes it), README, and the top-reacted open issues. Distill the project's job in one sentence and its differentiation axis — the thing it does that alternatives don't, which every later verdict is judged against.
  • With a topic (/ideate <problem>): restate the problem in one sentence and name the user and the constraint that hurts most. Missing pieces are assumptions — state them, don't invent facts.
  • Read out/ideate/tracker.md if it exists: ideas already generated, verdicts already made. A DROPped idea isn't re-raised unless something changed; repeat runs open with "Since last ideate" — what's new in the repo or problem since.

Completion criterion: job, user, and differentiation/constraint written down before any idea is generated.

Step 1 — Diverge (judgment forbidden here)

Generate ideas by working the lenses in references/lenses.md — do not freehand a flat list, which is how every session collapses into variations of one idea. Take each lens in turn and force at least one idea from it, even a weak one; range comes from the lenses being different, not from trying harder on one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 3d ago First seen · 108 lines · 213 tokens per session scan A d65fcc7ec87e

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ideate is a skill published in the GitHub repository duthaho/skillhub (9 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 213 tokens to every session and 1,264 once invoked, about $0.0011 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.