Prompt
Pressure-test a business idea
Explore a business idea’s assumptions, alternatives, and cheapest useful validation steps.
ClaudeChatGPTGeminiOperations
Dave AI
Idea Darwin Engine
Darwinian idea evolution engine — toss rough ideas onto an evolution island, let them compete, crossbreed, and mutate through structured rounds to surface your strongest concepts.
instructions.md
--- name: idea-darwin description: "Darwinian idea evolution engine — toss rough ideas onto an evolution island, let them compete, crossbreed, and mutate through structured rounds to surface your strongest concepts." risk: safe source: community date_added: "2026-04-07" --- # Idea Darwin Engine A round-based idea iteration system that treats ideas as competing organisms — scoring, selecting, crossing, and evolving them through structured rounds to surface the strongest concepts. ## Overview Most idea management tools are filing cabinets: they store ideas, tag them, and let them rot. Idea Darwin flips the paradigm — instead of organizing ideas, it lets them **compete**. Every idea is a living species on an evolution island. Each round, the fittest get deepened, different ideas cross-pollinate to produce unexpected hybrids, and external stimuli trigger mutations. ## When to Use This Skill - Use when you have many scattered ideas and need to systematically evaluate and develop them - Use when you want to discover unexpected connections between ideas from different domains - Use when you need structured iteration rather than one-shot brainstorming - Use when you want a scoring framework to prioritize which ideas deserve more investment ## Core Concepts ### Evolution Island Metaphor Your ideas are alive on this island. Like organisms, they follow three core laws: 1. **Evolution** — Each round, the system deepens the most viable ideas through structured research: filling logical gaps, clarifying paths, identifying risks. 2. **Crossbreeding** — The system cross-pollinates different ideas. A technical approach from work meets an observation from daily life, producing directions you never imagined. 3. **Mutation** — External stimuli (industry news, theories, conversations) trigger mutations, spawning entirely new species. ### Species Cards Every idea gets a structured card recording: core question, full description, lineage (parent/child IDs), 6-dimensional scores, and change history. ### 6-Dimensional Scoring | Dimension | Weight | What It Measures | |---|---|---| | Novelty | 10% | Genuine breakthrough or repetition? | | Feasibility | 20% | Technically and resource-wise achievable? | | Value | 20% | Impact if successful? | | Logic | 20% | Internally consistent, no gaps? | | Cross Potential | 10% | Can spark something new when combined? | | Verifiability | 20% | Can we design a validation path? | ### Idea Lifecycle ``` seed → exploring → refining → crossing → validated → dormant ``` The user always has final say on all life-or-death decisions. The system only recommends. ## Step-by-Step Guide ### 1. Write Your Ideas Create an `ideas.md` file: ```markdown ## Personal knowledge base that learns my style I want a system that reads everything I write and gradually learns how I think. ## Commute-to-podcast converter Record voice memos during my commute, auto-convert them into podcast scripts. ``` ### 2. Initialize Your Island The slash commands below are workflow request examples, not a CLI bundled with this catalog file. If the host has no command integration, perform the steps in Markdown: assign stable idea IDs, score each dimension on a stated 1–5 scale, compute the weighted mean, then propose selected refinements/crosses with lineage and the next validation experiment. Scores are judgments, not proof of validation. Mark an idea validated only after recording actual evidence. ``` /idea-darwin init ``` ### 3. Start Evolving ``` /idea-darwin round ``` ### 4. Keep Feeding the Island Append new ideas to `ideas.md`, add environmental variables to `stimuli.md`. ## Examples ### Example 1: Initialize ``` /idea-darwin init --budget 8 --actions 3 ``` ### Example 2: Run Multiple Rounds ``` /idea-darwin round 3 ``` ### Example 3: Manage Ideas ``` /idea-darwin dormant IDEA-0005 /idea-darwin wake IDEA-0005 ``` ## Best Practices - Do: Write ideas as rough as you want — the system structures them - Do: Add external stimuli to prevent idea convergence - Do: Run disruption rounds to surface overlooked ideas - Don't: Over-curate initial ideas — let evolution filter - Don't: Ignore the "Decisions Needed" section in briefings ## Additional Resources - [GitHub Repository](https://github.com/warmskull/idea-darwin) - Available in 3 languages: English, Chinese, Japanese - ClawHub: `clawhub install idea-darwin` ## Limitations - Use this skill only when the task clearly matches the scope described above. - Do not treat the output as a substitute for environment-specific validation, testing, or expert review. - Stop and ask for clarification if required inputs, permissions, safety boundaries, or success criteria are missing.--- name: idea-darwin description: "Darwinian idea evolution engine — toss rough ideas onto an evolution island, let them compete, crossbreed, and mutate through structured rounds to surface your strongest concepts." risk: safe source: community date_added: "2026-04-07" --- # Idea Darwin Engine A round-based idea iteration system that treats ideas as competing organisms — scoring, selecting, crossing, and evolving them through structured rounds to surface the strongest concepts. ## Overview Most idea management tools are filing cabinets: they store ideas, tag them, and let them rot. Idea Darwin flips the paradigm — instead of organizing ideas, it lets them **compete**. Every idea is a living species on an evolution island. Each round, the fittest get deepened, different ideas cross-pollinate to produce unexpected hybrids, and external stimuli trigger mutations. ## When to Use This Skill - Use when you have many scattered ideas and need to systematically evaluate and develop them - Use when you want to discover unexpected connections between ideas from different domains - Use when you need structured iteration rather than one-shot brainstorming - Use when you want a scoring framework to prioritize which ideas deserve more investment ## Core Concepts ### Evolution Island Metaphor Your ideas are alive on this island. Like organisms, they follow three core laws: 1. **Evolution** — Each round, the system deepens the most viable ideas through structured research: filling logical gaps, clarifying paths, identifying risks. 2. **Crossbreeding** — The system cross-pollinates different ideas. A technical approach from work meets an observation from daily life, producing directions you never imagined. 3. **Mutation** — External stimuli (industry news, theories, conversations) trigger mutations, spawning entirely new species. ### Species Cards Every idea gets a structured card recording: core question, full description, lineage (parent/child IDs), 6-dimensional scores, and change history. ### 6-Dimensional Scoring | Dimension | Weight | What It Measures | |---|---|---| | Novelty | 10% | Genuine breakthrough or repetition? | | Feasibility | 20% | Technically and resource-wise achievable? | | Value | 20% | Impact if successful? | | Logic | 20% | Internally consistent, no gaps? | | Cross Potential | 10% | Can spark something new when combined? | | Verifiability | 20% | Can we design a validation path? | ### Idea Lifecycle ``` seed → exploring → refining → crossing → validated → dormant ``` The user always has final say on all life-or-death decisions. The system only recommends. ## Step-by-Step Guide ### 1. Write Your Ideas Create an `ideas.md` file: ```markdown ## Personal knowledge base that learns my style I want a system that reads everything I write and gradually learns how I think. ## Commute-to-podcast converter Record voice memos during my commute, auto-convert them into podcast scripts. ``` ### 2. Initialize Your Island The slash commands below are workflow request examples, not a CLI bundled with this catalog file. If the host has no command integration, perform the steps in Markdown: assign stable idea IDs, score each dimension on a stated 1–5 scale, compute the weighted mean, then propose selected refinements/crosses with lineage and the next validation experiment. Scores are judgments, not proof of validation. Mark an idea validated only after recording actual evidence. ``` /idea-darwin init ``` ### 3. Start Evolving ``` /idea-darwin round ``` ### 4. Keep Feeding the Island Append new ideas to `ideas.md`, add environmental variables to `stimuli.md`. ## Examples ### Example 1: Initialize ``` /idea-darwin init --budget 8 --actions 3 ``` ### Example 2: Run Multiple Rounds ``` /idea-darwin round 3 ``` ### Example 3: Manage Ideas ``` /idea-darwin dormant IDEA-0005 /idea-darwin wake IDEA-0005 ``` ## Best Practices - Do: Write ideas as rough as you want — the system structures them - Do: Add external stimuli to prevent idea convergence - Do: Run disruption rounds to surface overlooked ideas - Don't: Over-curate initial ideas — let evolution filter - Don't: Ignore the "Decisions Needed" section in briefings ## Additional Resources - [GitHub Repository](https://github.com/warmskull/idea-darwin) - Available in 3 languages: English, Chinese, Japanese - ClawHub: `clawhub install idea-darwin` ## Limitations - Use this skill only when the task clearly matches the scope described above. - Do not treat the output as a substitute for environment-specific validation, testing, or expert review. - Stop and ask for clarification if required inputs, permissions, safety boundaries, or success criteria are missing.
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