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express

One-pass ideation for well-understood work: a thin alias that pre-commits /ideation's post-interview routing to the express finish. Identical evidence-gated interview, one consolidated confirmation (scope tier + run mode), then contract and specs generated without per-artifact approval loops and executed immediately on an isolation branch. Use when the user says 'express ideation', 'one-shot this', 'interview me then just build it', or wants planning that flows straight into execution without r…

Installation

$ npx skills add nicknisi/ideation --skill express

Summary

  • One-pass ideation for well-understood work: a thin alias that pre-commits /ideation's post-interview routing to the express finish.
  • Identical evidence-gated interview, one consolidated confirmation (scope tier + run mode), then contract and specs generated without per-artifact approval loops and executed immediately on an isolation branch.
  • Use when the user says 'express ideation', 'one-shot this', 'interview me then just build it', or wants planning that flows straight into execution without reviewing the contract.
  • For exploratory or unfamiliar territory, prefer the full ideation skill — per-artifact review gates earn their keep there.

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Repository health

Stars 13
License LICENSE
Default branch main
Open issues 1
Status Archived

Skill metadata

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Allowed toolsRead, Write, Edit, Bash, Glob, Grep, Agent, AskUserQuestion, Workflow, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate, TaskList, TaskGet

Package contents

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  • skill md SKILL.md 2,206 B
  • docs SUMMARY.md 661 B

History

  1. First recorded snapshot · 2 installs

SKILL.md

Express Ideation

Express is a pre-commit of /ideation's post-interview routing — same interview, same critics, same artifacts (contract-data.json, specs, generator-rendered contract.html + contract.md via --md-output); the only difference is that the express finish is chosen here, up front, instead of at the routing question.

  1. Clean-tree check — now, before the interview. Run git status --porcelain. Uncommitted changes would ride along on phase commits, and stopping costs one question here, not a completed interview. Dirty tree → ask: stash/commit first, accept the risk, or abort. A clean tree proceeds silently.
  2. Run ideation. Read and follow ${CLAUDEPLUGINROOT}/skills/ideation/SKILL.md end to end with the routing question pre-answered to "Approve — express finish" (fold the run-mode question into the approval call, and skip the routing-time clean-tree check — it already ran above). Everything else — branch handling, resume semantics, strict fail-closed execution, completion lines — lives in ideation's Express finish path, the single owner of express semantics.
  3. Scope guard (advisory). For exploratory or unfamiliar work, recommend the full /ideation flow instead — its evidence-derived routing recommendation makes the same call, with reasons.