ce-ideate
Generate and evaluate grounded ideas. Use when the user wants ideas, improvements, or surprising directions before choosing one to develop. Not for refining an idea they already have (ce-brainstorm) or judging one already on the table (ce-pov).
Install
With your agent
Install OMGSkills skill "everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin:ce-ideate" into this agent's normal skills directory: call the OMGSkills MCP get_install_plan tool for your agent and run the script it returns (it installs only the pinned commit and verifies SKILL.md), and stop if MCP or the pin is unavailable. Do not overwrite or change existing skills without asking me.
Manual command
git clone https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin /tmp/compound-engineering-plugin && ln -s /tmp/compound-engineering-plugin/skills/ce-ideate ~/.claude/skills/ce-ideateFrom README
Generate Improvement Ideas ce-ideate runs before ce-brainstorm. This skill answers "which ideas are worth exploring?" ce-brainstorm then answers what one chosen idea should mean. ce-plan answers how it gets built. Done: a ranked ideation artifact is written to /ideation/ when that root is present, else to a CE temp path. Every idea generated has been critiqued, and the survivors are explained. The user is left holding the next-steps menu. No requirements, plans, or code. Boundaries Ground before ideating. No advice detached from the repo. Generate many, critique all, explain survivors only. Generate the full candidate list before critiquing any of it. Rejection is explicit and carries a reason; this is not optimistic ranking. Send the user to brainstorming for action. Never skip from ideation output to planning. Never dispatch on an unidentified subject.
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Explore vague or ambitious ideas into a right-sized requirements-only unified plan.
ce-babysit-pr
Babysits an open GitHub PR until merge-ready, first judging whether an old PR still belongs.
ce-commit
Used to create a git commit with a clear, value-communicating message.