# Nw Diverge

> Generates 3-5 divergent design directions through JTBD analysis, competitive research, structured brainstorming, and taste evaluation before convergence. Use when the team has a validated problem but hasn't chosen a solution approach.

- Skill: `nwave-ai/nw-diverge-2` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add nwave-ai/nw-diverge-2`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/nwave-ai/nw-diverge-2/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Research & Search
- Author: nWave-ai (https://skillmd.com/u/nwave-ai)
- Updated: 2026-09-21
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/nwave-ai/nw-diverge-2

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# NW-DIVERGE

## Authority

DIVERGE updates the durable `docs/product/jobs.yaml` (the validated job,
opportunity scores, changelog). It never writes a per-delivery decision
ledger. `recommendation.md` and its supporting artifacts are the ephemeral
workspace read while this delivery is open, not a second authority.

## Required Pass

1. **Job (JTBD)** -- extract and elevate the job from the request or
   `docs/product/vision.md`/DISCOVER evidence, at strategic or physical
   level, not tactical. Produce functional/emotional/social statements and
   minimum 3 ODI outcome statements.
2. **Competitive research** -- invoke `nw-researcher` for evidence-grounded
   mapping of how existing products serve the job, including at least one
   non-obvious alternative.
3. **Brainstorming** -- frame the HMW question, apply SCAMPER, generate 6
   structurally diverse options (mechanism, assumption and cost differ).
4. **Taste evaluation** -- apply the DVF filter, score surviving options on
   the 4 locked-weight taste criteria, produce a traceable ranking with a
   dissenting case for the second-place option.
5. **Peer review** -- `nw-diverger-reviewer` validates all 5 dimensions,
   maximum 2 revision iterations.

## Handoff

Update `docs/product/jobs.yaml` once with the validated job and a changelog
entry referencing this feature-id. Return the recommendation and decision
statement; do not author a `wave-decisions.md` or any other per-wave ledger.

```text
DIVERGE-RESULT
verdict: PASS | NEEDS_INPUT
job: <JOB-id, statement>
options: <count generated, count survived>
recommended: <option> -- <one-line rationale>
dissent: <second-place option> -- <why it might win under different assumptions>
ssot: <docs/product/jobs.yaml updated>
```