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title: "Ideate - Air Market"
description: "Sometimes a quick brainstorm just returns the ideas you already had. This runs idea generation in cycles instead: dreaming, borrowing from other fields, recombining, testing, and keeping what survive…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/ideate"
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[Air Market](/) / [Research](/category/research) / Ideate

Skill by [Daniel Miessler 🛡️](/@danielmiessler)

# Ideate

When the obvious ideas are all bad, breed some new ones

## What this does

Sometimes a quick brainstorm just returns the ideas you already had. This runs idea generation in cycles instead: dreaming, borrowing from other fields, recombining, testing, and keeping what survives. Reach for it when you need something genuinely new rather than a fast list.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Generate genuinely new approaches over several cycles
- Borrow a solution from an unrelated field
- Rank candidate ideas and see where each came from

## Information

**Ideate at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Daniel Miessler 🛡️](/@danielmiessler) |
| Category | [Research](/category/research) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Version | 1.0.19 |
| Size | 39 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [danielmiessler/LifeOS](https://github.com/danielmiessler/LifeOS/tree/47df8eebf08d78a3ef5851ec2f9b751bae6558fb/LifeOS/install/skills/Ideate) |
| GitHub stars | 18,706 (as of Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Ideate and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Ideate's check was run against**

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| --- | --- |
| Commit | 47df8eebf08d78a3ef5851ec2f9b751bae6558fb |
| Content hash | fb1c09f8a6b5df2fa7cb0be5ac32b8c9f14711442e2abf0e512da4ca2fdfe309 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/danielmiessler/LifeOS/blob/47df8eebf08d78a3ef5851ec2f9b751bae6558fb/LifeOS/install/skills/Ideate/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Ideate](/security/ideate)

## About Ideate

This is an evolutionary ideation engine. Rather than one pass, it runs loop-controlled multi-cycle idea generation through phases: dreaming, stealing across domains, recombination, fitness testing, selection, and Lamarckian meta-learning.

What comes out is a ranked set of novel solution candidates, each carrying its provenance.

It suits the moment you need genuinely new approaches and have time for more than one cycle. For a quick single-pass brainstorm, its own notes point at BeCreative instead.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- Workflows/Dream.md - reference
- Workflows/FullCycle.md - reference
- Workflows/Mate.md - reference
- Workflows/QuickCycle.md - reference
- Workflows/Steal.md - reference
- Workflows/Test.md - reference

## Questions

### Is Ideate safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Ideate and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 47df8eebf08d, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/ideate.

### How do I install Ideate?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/ideate on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/danielmiessler/LifeOS/tree/47df8eebf08d78a3ef5851ec2f9b751bae6558fb/LifeOS/install/skills/Ideate. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Research listings](/category/research)
- [Everything by Daniel Miessler 🛡️](/@danielmiessler)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/ideate>