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Socratic technical discovery and inverted-pyramid outlining workflow that interviews engineers one question at a time and structures blog posts, READMEs, and documentation by descending reader value.

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# 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).

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## 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.
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