Generate
Surfaces business opportunity gaps from existing vault research using 5 gap patterns. Produces evaluator-ready idea seeds in three stages: generate candidates → light score → flesh out top ideas.
When to Invoke
Trigger on any of:
- "Find ideas in [domain]"
- "What could I build in [space]?"
- "Generate business ideas from [domain] research"
- "What gaps exist in [market]?"
- "I've been researching [domain], what should I build?"
- "Explore the [domain] opportunity space"
Does NOT trigger for:
- Evaluating a specific idea (→ /idea-forge:evaluate)
- General market research without generative intent
- Knowledge vault lookups
What It Does
- Looks up existing vault research for the domain in
ideas/_registry/master-index.yaml - Assembles a corpus from scored cards (or idea.md frontmatter for brainstorm-only domains)
- Applies up to 5 gap patterns against the corpus (subset may run depending on corpus quality) to surface up to 14 opportunity candidates
- Light-scores all candidates on 3 criteria — only ideas scoring ≥6/9 advance
- Fleshes out top 3-5 candidates into evaluator-ready idea seeds
- Saves all seeds to
ideas/_registry/idea-seeds-{domain}-{YYYY-MM-DD}-run-N.md
How to Use
Load and follow the orchestration prompt:
Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/generate/generator.md
The generator.md file contains the complete pipeline instructions for all four sections.
Relationship to Evaluate
The generate and evaluate skills are designed to work in sequence:
/idea-forge:generate → idea-seeds-{domain}.md → /idea-forge:evaluate (per seed)
After generation, the user picks any seed and runs /idea-forge:evaluate on it.