ideation

ideation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Tommy-yw/RunbookHermes. It costs 75 tokens per session (1,478 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ideation, MIT.

A project-idea generator that uses creative constraints to suggest things you could make. It covers software, art, hardware, writing, and other kinds of projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to get three project ideas, find a coding project, or choose something to make when you are bored or stuck.
Why use it?
It helps when you want to build something but have no clear direction. Constraints turn a vague goal into several concrete starting points.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to get three project ideas, find a coding project, or choose something to make when you are bored or stuck.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tommy-yw/runbookhermes/creative-ideation
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 Tommy-yw/RunbookHermes --skill creative-ideation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Tommy-yw/RunbookHermes

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.

agentmods badge for ideation

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tommy-yw/runbookhermes/creative-ideation/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tommy-yw/runbookhermes/creative-ideation)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tommy-yw/runbookhermes/creative-ideation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tommy-yw/runbookhermes/creative-ideation/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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 ideation

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tommy-yw/runbookhermes/creative-ideation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tommy-yw/runbookhermes/creative-ideation.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,478 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 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00075 $0.01478
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00739
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00296
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00148

Measured 6d ago against content hash 9eaa91b9cce5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ideation 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 6d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to ideation — 13 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/creative/creative-ideation/SKILL.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Creative Ideation

Generate project ideas through creative constraints. Constraint + direction = creativity.

How It Works

  1. Pick a constraint from the library below — random, or matched to the user's domain/mood
  2. Interpret it broadly — a coding prompt can become a hardware project, an art prompt can become a CLI tool
  3. Generate 3 concrete project ideas that satisfy the constraint
  4. If they pick one, build it — create the project, write the code, ship it

The Rule

Every prompt is interpreted as broadly as possible. "Does this include X?" → Yes. The prompts provide direction and mild constraint. Without either, there is no creativity.

Constraint Library

For Developers

Solve your own itch: Build the tool you wished existed this week. Under 50 lines. Ship it today.

Automate the annoying thing: What's the most tedious part of your workflow? Script it away. Two hours to fix a problem that costs you five minutes a day.

The CLI tool that should exist: Think of a command you've wished you could type. git undo-that-thing-i-just-did. docker why-is-this-broken. npm explain-yourself. Now build it.

Nothing new except glue: Make something entirely from existing APIs, libraries, and datasets. The only original contribution is how you connect them.

Frankenstein week: Take something that does X and make it do Y. A git repo that plays music. A Dockerfile that generates poetry. A cron job that sends compliments.

Subtract: How much can you remove from a codebase before it breaks? Strip a tool to its minimum viable function. Delete until only the essence remains.

High concept, low effort: A deep idea, lazily executed. The concept should be brilliant. The implementation should take an afternoon. If it takes longer, you're overthinking it.

For Makers & Artists

Blatantly copy something: Pick something you admire — a tool, an artwork, an interface. Recreate it from scratch. The learning is in the gap between your version and theirs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 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. 6d ago First seen · 148 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 9eaa91b9cce5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ideation is a skill published in the GitHub repository Tommy-yw/RunbookHermes (544 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,478 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to ideation, differing in 13 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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