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# Idea Storm

A short brainstorm gives you the three obvious ideas everyone gets. This maximizes range instead: it runs your prompt through many different generative lenses — the safe idea, the wild idea, the cheapest idea, the most ambitious, the weirdest, the opposite — to produce a genuinely wide spread, then clusters and shortlists so the volume is usable. Wide first, then narrow.

## What This Skill Produces

- **A high-volume idea list** — many ideas, deliberately varied, generated without early judgment
- **Multiple lenses applied** — safe / wild / cheap / ambitious / weird / opposite / adjacent-industry angles, so the range is real
- **Theme clusters** — the ideas grouped so the volume is navigable
- **A shortlist** — the most promising handful, flagged for a next step
- **A wildcard** — at least one genuinely out-there option worth a second look

## Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:
- **The prompt** — what you need ideas for (a name, a gift, a solution, a plan, a project)
- **Any constraints** — budget, time, must-haves (applied lightly — this is generation)
- **The vibe** — practical, creative, or anything-goes
- **How many** — a rough target (more than you think)

## Framework: Many Lenses, Then Cluster

1. **Generate across lenses, not one.** Run the prompt through varied angles — safe, wild, cheap, ambitious, weird, opposite, from-another-field — so ideas differ in kind, not just wording.
2. **Chase volume, defer judgment.** Aim high and don't evaluate mid-generation; quantity and range are the job here.
3. **Include the wildcards.** Deliberately produce a few genuinely strange ideas — they're often where the good ones hide or get sparked.
4. **Cluster into themes.** Group the flood into a few themes so it's usable, not overwhelming.
5. **Shortlist the promising.** Pick the handful worth pursuing and flag one wildcard to keep — the narrowing comes after the widening.

## Output Format

### Ideas for: [the prompt]

**The storm (by lens)**
- Safe: […] · Wild: […] · Cheap: […] · Ambitious: […] · Weird: […] · Opposite: […] · From another field: […]

**Clustered**
- **[Theme]:** [ideas]. **[Theme]:** [ideas].

**Shortlist:** [the most promising few].
**Wildcard to keep:** [one out-there option].

## Quality Checks
- [ ] High volume with genuine variety (ideas differ in kind)
- [ ] Multiple distinct lenses were applied
- [ ] Judgment was deferred during generation
- [ ] Ideas are clustered into usable themes
- [ ] A shortlist plus a wildcard is provided

## Anti-Patterns
- **Three obvious ideas** and stopping.
- **Ideas that are all variations** of one concept.
- **Judging mid-generation** and narrowing too early.
- **A flat wall of ideas** with no clustering or shortlist.

## Example Trigger Phrases
- "Brainstorm ideas for my startup's name."
- "Give me lots of options for a 40th birthday gift."
- "I need ideas for content to post this month."
- "Help me come up with ways to use this spare room."
- "Idea-storm solutions to my team's meeting overload."