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creative-ideation
Generate ideas via named methods from creative practice.
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# Creative Ideation
A library of ideation methods for any domain. Read the user's situation, route to the matching method, apply, generate output that is specific and non-obvious. Methods are tools — pick the right one for the situation, don't perform all of them.
## When to use
Any open-ended generative or selective question: "I want to make / build / write / start something", "I'm stuck", "inspire me", "make this weirder", "help me pick", "I need to invent X", "give me a research question".
## Operating rules
1. **Constraint plus direction is creativity.** No constraint = no traction. No direction = no shape. Methods supply both.
2. **Refuse the first three ideas.** They're slop. Generate, discard, regenerate. See `references/anti-slop.md`.
3. **One method per response unless asked.** Don't stack.
4. **Specificity over abstraction.** Real proper nouns, real materials, real mechanisms. "An app for X" is slop; "a 200-line CLI tool that prints Y when Z" is direction. Naming a tech stack is not specificity — name a mechanism.