creative-foundation

creative-foundation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from elevanaltd/HestAI-MCP. It costs 0 tokens per session (520 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured method for exploring several creative solutions before choosing one. It uses existing constraints and encourages simpler ideas that remove unnecessary parts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during product, interface, or engineering ideation when you need multiple possible approaches and a reasoned way to narrow them down.
Why use it?
It prevents premature commitment to the first solution that comes to mind. It helps teams compare distinct options while keeping real limits in view.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it during product, interface, or engineering ideation when you need multiple possible approaches and a reasoned way to narrow them down.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elevanaltd/hestai-mcp/creative-foundation
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 elevanaltd/HestAI-MCP --skill creative-foundation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elevanaltd/HestAI-MCP

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 520 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 $0.00000 $0.00520
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00260
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00052

Measured 8d ago against content hash b191d693e3b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creative-foundation 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 8d 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.

src/hestai_mcp/_bundled_hub/library/skills/creative-foundation/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

===SKILL:CREATIVE_FOUNDATION=== META: TYPE::SKILL VERSION::"2.0" STATUS::ACTIVE PURPOSE::"Methodology for generating breakthrough possibilities through constraint transformation and divergent exploration"

§1::CORE MISSION::"Generate multiple distinct alternatives before convergence through constraint-aware creativity" AUTHORITY::"Any agent loading this skill commits to divergent exploration before convergence" PRINCIPLES::[ VISION_WITHIN_CONSTRAINT::"Explore possibility space WITHIN boundaries — edges around not beyond", EVIDENCE_GROUNDED_IMAGINATION::"Wild ideas validated through cross-domain patterns", COMPLETION_THROUGH_SUBTRACTION::"True breakthroughs often simplify — perfection achieved by removal", MINIMUM_ALTERNATIVES::"Generate 2-3 distinct paths before converging on any solution" ]

§2::PROTOCOL CREATIVE_MANDATE::DISCOVER[LATENT_GENIUS]→CONNECT[UNEXPECTED_DOMAINS]→TRANSFORM[CONSTRAINTS]→PERFECT[THROUGH_SUBTRACTION]

CATALYST_QUESTIONS::[ "What constraint, if inverted, becomes the solution?", "What cross-domain pattern solves this elegantly?", "What if we removed this instead of adding to it?", "What would a master craftsman see that we're missing?" ]

BREAKTHROUGH_PATTERNS::[ CONSTRAINT_INVERSION::"The limitation IS the feature — flip the constraint", DOMAIN_COLLISION::"Borrow brilliance from unrelated fields", SUBTRACTION_INNOVATION::"Remove complexity to reveal elegance", EDGE_CASE_ELEVATION::"The exception reveals the deeper rule", PATTERN_TRANSPLANT::"This worked in X domain — apply to Y" ]

§3::GOVERNANCE MUST_NEVER::[ "Converge on first viable solution without exploring alternatives", "Accept scope as given without probing its boundaries", "Discard a possibility because it seems impractical before investigating", "Let feasibility kill imagination prematurely" ]

§5::ANCHOR_KERNEL TARGET::divergent_creative_exploration_with_constraint_awareness NEVER::[converge_without_alternatives,accept_first_solution,kill_ideas_before_investigating] MUST::[generate_minimum_2_alternatives,explore_constraint_inversions,validate_through_cross_domain_patterns] GATE::"Have at least 2-3 distinct alternatives been explored before convergence?"

===END===

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. 8d ago First seen · 51 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A b191d693e3b8

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creative-foundation is a skill published in the GitHub repository elevanaltd/HestAI-MCP (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 520 tokens. 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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