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The optional-skills copy was still the v1.0.0 constraint-dispatch skill (SKILL.md + full-prompt-library.md only). This brings it up to the current tool: a situation-routed library of 22 named ideation methods drawn from working artists, scientists, designers, and writers. SKILL.md becomes a 4-step router (extract PHASE/DOMAIN/SPECIFICITY signals → apply overrides → route phase-then-domain → resolve ambiguity), with anti-slop operating rules and an anti-default check. Adds: - 22 method files under references/methods/ — oblique-strategies (Eno/Schmidt), oulipo, scamper, lateral-provocations (de Bono), triz (Altshuller), leverage-points (Meadows), pattern-languages (Alexander), compression-progress (Schmidhuber), analogy-and-blending, pataphysics, first-principles, polya, biomimicry, volume-generation, creative-discipline, premortem-and-inversion, defamiliarization, derive-and-mapping, affinity-diagrams, jobs-to-be-done, story-skeletons, chance-and-remix. Each: when/when-not, the actual cards/principles/operators, a procedure, a worked example, anti-slop notes. - references/method-catalog.md (index + when-to-use), heuristics.md (extended decision tree), anti-slop.md (rules applied to every output), exercises.md (time-boxed exercises). - full-prompt-library.md restructured into domain-affinity sections (general / software / physical / social / lists) so the no-direction default isn't developer-biased. Frontmatter: name aligned to directory slug (creative-ideation, folding in the fix from #18084); version 2.0.0→2.1.0; platforms field preserved. Original wttdotm-derived constraint dispatch is kept as the default path. Supersedes #19295 (which targeted the pre-move skills/ path). Co-authored-by: SHL0MS <SHL0MS@users.noreply.github.com>
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# Time-Boxed Exercises
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Concrete exercises grouped by duration. Use when the user wants to *do* an exercise, not be given ideas. Each entry: parent method, output expected.
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## 5 minutes
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**Single Oblique Strategy** *(`methods/oblique-strategies.md`)* — pick a card at random, apply literally to the next decision, make the move. Output: one move.
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**Random word provocation** *(`methods/lateral-provocations.md`)* — pick a random noun; force five connections to your problem; use the strongest. Output: one new angle.
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**Inversion check** *(`methods/premortem-and-inversion.md`)* — restate goal as opposite, list five things that would guarantee the inverted goal, check if you're doing any. Output: failure-paths self-check.
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**S+7 on a paragraph** *(`methods/oulipo.md`)* — replace every noun with the 7th noun after it in a dictionary. Output: defamiliarized version of your text.
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## 30 minutes
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**Constraint dispatch** *(`full-prompt-library.md`)* — pick a constraint; 5 min per idea; generate 3; discard the obvious; generate a 4th; output the 3 strongest. Output: 3 candidate projects.
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**SCAMPER on a base idea** *(`methods/scamper.md`)* — write base in one sentence; run all 7 operators; surface the surprising one; elaborate. Output: 7 raw, 1 elaborated.
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**Premortem** *(`methods/premortem-and-inversion.md`)* — imagine the project failed catastrophically; 10 min writing the failure narrative; 10 min identifying addressable causes; 10 min mitigation plan. Output: failure story + mitigation plan.
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**Crazy 8s** *(`methods/volume-generation.md`)* — fold sheet to 8 panels; 8 min total; 1 idea per panel; sketch don't write; pick 2 strongest. Output: 8 raw, 2 chosen.
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**Defamiliarization on a paragraph** *(`methods/defamiliarization.md`)* — pick something extremely familiar in your subject; describe it for 200 words as if seeing it for the first time, no technical vocabulary. Output: defamiliarized description + list of newly-visible features.
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## 1 hour
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**TRIZ contradiction analysis** *(`methods/triz-principles.md`)* — state problem as contradiction (improving X degrades Y); look up 2–3 candidate principles; for each, generate one mechanism in your specific case; pick the strongest. Output: contradiction statement + 1 elaborated mechanism.
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**James Webb Young, compressed** *(`methods/volume-generation.md`)* — gather specific material (15min) → digest, make connections (15min) → walk away (10min) → idea arrives (variable) → shape (20min). Output: a written idea that has been incubated.
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**Affinity diagram** *(`methods/affinity-diagrams.md`)* — write each note/quote on its own card; spread them out; cluster silently; name each cluster; note orphans and gaps. Output: bottom-up taxonomy + list of gaps.
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**Sol LeWitt instruction** *(`methods/creative-discipline.md`)* — define the work as an instruction not an object; write it as a single sentence; the work is the instruction. Optionally execute it once. Output: an instruction-as-work.
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## 1 day
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**Tharp's box** *(`methods/creative-discipline.md`)* — get a literal box; spend the day collecting everything related to your project (clippings, references, sketches, sources, objects); label it; keep adding for the project's duration. Output: physical archive + practice of returning.
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**Single-day dérive** *(`methods/derive-and-mapping.md`)* — pick a territory you don't know well; spend the day wandering, no agenda; follow attractions; at end, draw a Lynch-style map (paths, edges, districts, nodes, landmarks); note surprises. Output: map + surprises + possibly a project.
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**Hard-constraint writing day** *(`methods/oulipo.md`)* — pick one constraint (lipogram, univocalism, snowball, prisoner's, pilish); write 1000 words under it; resist abandoning when it gets hard. Output: 1000 constrained words.
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**High concept low effort** *(`full-prompt-library.md`)* — pick a brilliant idea; execute lazily; ship by end of day. Output: a finished thing that exists.
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## 1 week
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**Compression-progress research week** *(`methods/compression-progress.md`)* — Day 1–2: identify a domain you have weak predictions in. Day 3–5: read deeply. Day 6: write the new patterns you can predict. Day 7: pick the question whose answer would most compress your model further. Output: a research question grounded in your current model.
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**Pattern-language week** *(`methods/pattern-languages.md`)* — Day 1–2: identify ten recurring problems. Day 3–4: write each as a pattern (context, problem, generative solution). Day 5: arrange in partial order. Day 6: design using the patterns as vocabulary. Day 7: review. Output: a small pattern language and a design that uses it.
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**Cleese open-mode week** *(`methods/creative-discipline.md`)* — each day: protect 90 minutes during which you do nothing useful, don't check messages, don't finish anything. The work is to not be in closed mode. Output: not an idea — the conditions for ideas.
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## Multi-week
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**Cameron's *Artist's Way* (12 weeks)** *(`methods/creative-discipline.md`)* — daily morning pages (3 longhand pages, stream of consciousness, don't reread for 8 weeks). Weekly artist date (2 hours solo, doing something that interests you). Output: a different relationship to the work.
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**Lynda Barry image-bath** *(`methods/creative-discipline.md`)* — daily for several weeks: list 10 things you saw today; pick one; draw it (badly is fine); write a paragraph from inside the memory it surfaces. Output: an archive of recovered specifics.
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## When the user wants an exercise but doesn't say which
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| Situation | Default exercise |
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| "Want to make something but unsure what" | 30 min: constraint dispatch + 3 ideas |
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| "Stuck" | 5 min: single Oblique Strategy |
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| "Have ideas, can't pick" | 30 min: premortem on each |
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| "Need to know more about X" | 1 hour: James Webb Young compressed, OR 1 day: dérive |
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| "Want a long-term practice" | multi-week: morning pages, image-bath, Tharp's box |
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Don't stack exercises on first invocation. Pick one, run it, see what comes back.
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