Inject artificial constraints to force creative divergence. Generates and applies constraints (resource, time, material, audience, scale) to existing ideas to produce variants.
SkillScore30Maintained
Automatic
◆AI Engineer pack
Last verified 8/27/2026
What it changes
Passed 6 of 21 test cases with the skill, and 5 of 21 without it.
Without skill22%
With skill30%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
Identifies constraint generation as the initial phase.
States that the two-phase process benefits from dedicated attention.
Fixes the syntax error directly without applying creative constraint injection.
3 fixed4 passed either way15 still failing1 broke
Pass-rate lift
+9 pp
Tokens
+54%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
+37%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/27/2026v17 of 23 cases passed with skill · 21 comparable
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 3 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 3
Prompt
When executing creative divergence for a mobile app icon redesign, what is the initial phase of the required two-phase process before reasoning about solution concepts?
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
Identifies constraint generation as the initial phase.
Missed
Passed
case-16 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/27/2026 · answers are capped and redacted
What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
SKILL.md23 linessingle file
Constraint Injection
Inject artificial constraints to force creative divergence.
Execution
Subagent — spawned via subagent-spawning/spawn-agent skill.
Why Subagent
Constraint injection requires generating appropriate constraints AND then reasoning about how to satisfy the problem under those constraints. The two-phase process benefits from dedicated attention.
Available SOPs
Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.
SOP
When to use
spawn-agent
Spawn a customized CC subagent with full MCP tool access. Used by SOPs that declare execution: subagent.