ideonomy-plain

Ideonomy-Plain

A skill for expanding ideas using Patrick Gunkel's ideonomy — the science of treating ideas as natural phenomena that can be sliced, negated, recombined, and re-instantiated. Synthesized from Grace Kind's writing on Ideonomy at gracekind.net. All credit for the framework as presented here belongs to Grace Kind and Patrick Gunkel.

This is the plain-text-portable half of a pair. Output is plain Markdown lists, fenced-code-block tables, no Unicode box-drawing — survives every channel, including SMS bridges. For monospace-rich rendering with figlet banners, Unicode box-drawing, density gradients, and visible ideonomy-machinery layers, use the sibling skill ideonomy-rich.

Core principle

Ideas have properties that vary along dimensions. To expand an idea, identify its dimensions and then operate on them — substitute one value for another, negate a definitional property, combine the idea's organon (its structured capture) with another organon, or lift the idea to a higher abstraction and re-instantiate it elsewhere. The expansion is the population of related ideas these operations surface.

How to invoke

Step 1 — pick a method tuple. Run the pick script. It selects a random combination of operators, an organon, and dimension prompts from the catalog under methods/:

# Locate pick (works for any installation method):
PICK=$(find ~/.claude/plugins ~/.claude/skills -path '*/ideonomy-plain/bin/pick' -type f 2>/dev/null | head -1)
bash "$PICK"

# With flags: bash "$PICK" --more / --less / --print / --seed N

The script prints the picks then concatenates the bodies of the selected method files. Read all of it.

Flags:

• --more — bigger tuple (3 operators, 2 organons, 5 dim-prompts)
• --less — smaller tuple (1 operator, 1 organon, 2 dim-prompts)
• --print — just print the picks; don't cat the bodies
• --random-org — seed the picker from random.org (network) instead of local entropy
• --seed N — deterministic pick for a given integer seed