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Generate diverse solution candidates with category-spanning ideation methods and rotation.
Passed 21 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 11 of 22 without it.
and 7 more in the full report
10 fixed11 passed either way1 still failing0 broke
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One of 10 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
We are ideating new database storage architectures under the deliberate absurd rule: 'The database has zero disk storage allowed.' What ideation method category does this technique belong to?
| Checked | Without skill | With skill |
|---|---|---|
| Classifies constraint provocation under the perturbation category. | Missed | Passed |
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Diversity is a selection problem, not a volume problem.
Generating ten ideas from one mental frame yields ten variations of the same idea. The fix is to ideate from different categories of method, then rotate methods across passes so the next round does not repeat the last. This is the documented lever against LLM mode collapse, not a brainstorming ritual.
tome:research)tome:triz)Structure the reasoning, not the output.
"The Price of Format" (arXiv 2505.18949) found that rigid output templates collapse output diversity, while reasoning scaffolds raise it. So each method hands you a reasoning prompt. Do not force the ideas into a fixed schema while generating; impose structure only when reporting the final set.
Seven methods that port to technical problem-solving, each tagged with an honest evidence grade (see Sources below):
| Method | Category | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| SCAMPER | transformation | weak |
| SIT task unification | transformation | mixed |
| Morphological analysis | decomposition | mixed |
| SIT subtraction | decomposition | mixed |
| Cross-domain analogy (TRIZ) | analogical | mixed |
| Inversion (pre-mortem) | inversion | anecdotal |
| Constraint provocation | perturbation | anecdotal |
test cases passed, vs 11 / 22 without
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