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Completes the Windows-gating coverage for the built-in skills/ tree. Every
bundled SKILL.md now carries an explicit platforms: declaration so the
loader (agent.skill_utils.skill_matches_platform) can skip-load skills
that don't fit the current OS.
74 skills declared cross-platform (platforms: [linux, macos, windows]):
Creative (16): ascii-art, ascii-video, architecture-diagram, baoyu-comic,
baoyu-infographic, claude-design, creative-ideation, design-md,
excalidraw, humanizer, manim-video, p5js, pixel-art,
popular-web-designs, pretext, sketch, songwriting-and-ai-music,
touchdesigner-mcp
Autonomous agents: claude-code, codex, hermes-agent, opencode
Data/devops: jupyter-live-kernel, kanban-orchestrator, kanban-worker,
webhook-subscriptions, dogfood, codebase-inspection
GitHub: github-auth, github-code-review, github-issues,
github-pr-workflow, github-repo-management
Media: gif-search, heartmula, songsee, spotify, youtube-content
MCP / email / gaming / notes / smart-home: native-mcp, himalaya,
pokemon-player, obsidian, openhue
mlops (non-broken): weights-and-biases, huggingface-hub, llama-cpp,
outlines, segment-anything-model, dspy, trl-fine-tuning
Productivity: airtable, google-workspace, linear, maps, nano-pdf,
notion, ocr-and-documents, powerpoint
Red-teaming / research: godmode, arxiv, blogwatcher, llm-wiki,
polymarket
Software-dev: debugging-hermes-tui-commands, hermes-agent-skill-authoring,
node-inspect-debugger, plan, requesting-code-review, spike,
subagent-driven-development, systematic-debugging,
test-driven-development, writing-plans
Misc: yuanbao
5 skills gated from Windows (platforms: [linux, macos]):
mlops/inference/vllm (serving-llms-vllm)
vLLM is officially Linux-only; Windows requires WSL.
mlops/training/axolotl
Axolotl's flash-attn + deepspeed + bitsandbytes stack is Linux-first.
mlops/training/unsloth
Requires Triton + xformers + flash-attn — Linux only in practice.
mlops/models/audiocraft (audiocraft-audio-generation)
torchaudio ffmpeg backend + encodec dependencies are Linux-first.
mlops/inference/obliteratus
Research abliteration workflow; relies on Linux-focused pytorch
kernels and MLX — no first-class Windows path.
Same strict-over-lenient policy as the optional-skills sweep: when the
underlying tool's Windows support is rough, missing, or WSL-only, gate the
skill. Easier to un-gate after verified Windows support lands than to leak
partial support that manifests as mid-task failures.
Combined with prior commits in this branch, every bundled SKILL.md
(skills/ + optional-skills/) now has a platforms: declaration.
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name: ideation
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title: Creative Ideation — Constraint-Driven Project Generation
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description: "Generate project ideas via creative constraints."
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version: 1.0.0
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author: SHL0MS
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license: MIT
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platforms: [linux, macos, windows]
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metadata:
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hermes:
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tags: [Creative, Ideation, Projects, Brainstorming, Inspiration]
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category: creative
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requires_toolsets: []
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---
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# Creative Ideation
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## When to use
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Use when the user says 'I want to build something', 'give me a project idea', 'I'm bored', 'what should I make', 'inspire me', or any variant of 'I have tools but no direction'. Works for code, art, hardware, writing, tools, and anything that can be made.
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Generate project ideas through creative constraints. Constraint + direction = creativity.
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## How It Works
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1. **Pick a constraint** from the library below — random, or matched to the user's domain/mood
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2. **Interpret it broadly** — a coding prompt can become a hardware project, an art prompt can become a CLI tool
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3. **Generate 3 concrete project ideas** that satisfy the constraint
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4. **If they pick one, build it** — create the project, write the code, ship it
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## The Rule
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Every prompt is interpreted as broadly as possible. "Does this include X?" → Yes. The prompts provide direction and mild constraint. Without either, there is no creativity.
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## Constraint Library
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### For Developers
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**Solve your own itch:**
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Build the tool you wished existed this week. Under 50 lines. Ship it today.
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**Automate the annoying thing:**
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What's the most tedious part of your workflow? Script it away. Two hours to fix a problem that costs you five minutes a day.
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**The CLI tool that should exist:**
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Think of a command you've wished you could type. `git undo-that-thing-i-just-did`. `docker why-is-this-broken`. `npm explain-yourself`. Now build it.
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**Nothing new except glue:**
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Make something entirely from existing APIs, libraries, and datasets. The only original contribution is how you connect them.
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**Frankenstein week:**
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Take something that does X and make it do Y. A git repo that plays music. A Dockerfile that generates poetry. A cron job that sends compliments.
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**Subtract:**
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How much can you remove from a codebase before it breaks? Strip a tool to its minimum viable function. Delete until only the essence remains.
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**High concept, low effort:**
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A deep idea, lazily executed. The concept should be brilliant. The implementation should take an afternoon. If it takes longer, you're overthinking it.
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### For Makers & Artists
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**Blatantly copy something:**
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Pick something you admire — a tool, an artwork, an interface. Recreate it from scratch. The learning is in the gap between your version and theirs.
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**One million of something:**
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One million is both a lot and not that much. One million pixels is a 1MB photo. One million API calls is a Tuesday. One million of anything becomes interesting at scale.
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**Make something that dies:**
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A website that loses a feature every day. A chatbot that forgets. A countdown to nothing. An exercise in rot, killing, or letting go.
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**Do a lot of math:**
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Generative geometry, shader golf, mathematical art, computational origami. Time to re-learn what an arcsin is.
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### For Anyone
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**Text is the universal interface:**
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Build something where text is the only interface. No buttons, no graphics, just words in and words out. Text can go in and out of almost anything.
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**Start at the punchline:**
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Think of something that would be a funny sentence. Work backwards to make it real. "I taught my thermostat to gaslight me" → now build it.
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**Hostile UI:**
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Make something intentionally painful to use. A password field that requires 47 conditions. A form where every label lies. A CLI that judges your commands.
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**Take two:**
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Remember an old project. Do it again from scratch. No looking at the original. See what changed about how you think.
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See `references/full-prompt-library.md` for 30+ additional constraints across communication, scale, philosophy, transformation, and more.
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## Matching Constraints to Users
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| User says | Pick from |
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| "I want to build something" (no direction) | Random — any constraint |
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| "I'm learning [language]" | Blatantly copy something, Automate the annoying thing |
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| "I want something weird" | Hostile UI, Frankenstein week, Start at the punchline |
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| "I want something useful" | Solve your own itch, The CLI that should exist, Automate the annoying thing |
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| "I want something beautiful" | Do a lot of math, One million of something |
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| "I'm burned out" | High concept low effort, Make something that dies |
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| "Weekend project" | Nothing new except glue, Start at the punchline |
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| "I want a challenge" | One million of something, Subtract, Take two |
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## Output Format
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```
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## Constraint: [Name]
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> [The constraint, one sentence]
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### Ideas
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1. **[One-line pitch]**
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[2-3 sentences: what you'd build and why it's interesting]
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⏱ [weekend / week / month] • 🔧 [stack]
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2. **[One-line pitch]**
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[2-3 sentences]
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⏱ ... • 🔧 ...
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3. **[One-line pitch]**
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[2-3 sentences]
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⏱ ... • 🔧 ...
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```
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## Example
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```
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## Constraint: The CLI tool that should exist
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> Think of a command you've wished you could type. Now build it.
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### Ideas
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1. **`git whatsup` — show what happened while you were away**
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Compares your last active commit to HEAD and summarizes what changed,
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who committed, and what PRs merged. Like a morning standup from your repo.
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⏱ weekend • 🔧 Python, GitPython, click
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2. **`explain 503` — HTTP status codes for humans**
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Pipe any status code or error message and get a plain-English explanation
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with common causes and fixes. Pulls from a curated database, not an LLM.
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⏱ weekend • 🔧 Rust or Go, static dataset
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3. **`deps why <package>` — why is this in my dependency tree**
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Traces a transitive dependency back to the direct dependency that pulled
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it in. Answers "why do I have 47 copies of lodash" in one command.
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⏱ weekend • 🔧 Node.js, npm/yarn lockfile parsing
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```
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After the user picks one, start building — create the project, write the code, iterate.
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## Attribution
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Constraint approach inspired by [wttdotm.com/prompts.html](https://wttdotm.com/prompts.html). Adapted and expanded for software development and general-purpose ideation.
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