The greatest breakthroughs don't come from thinking harder within existing frames — they come from shattering the frame entirely and discovering what lies beyond.
Divergent idea generation engine for autonomous research pipelines.
🧭 Part of the De-Anthropocentric Research Engine. This repository is one of nine composable research packages that make up DARE — the full autonomous research-orchestration system. DARE bundles this package together with the others into a single self-contained clone, unified under one orchestrator. To use these skills as intended — with the spec-driven orchestrator and cross-package routing — clone the main repository rather than this repo alone.
Creative Ideation is not a brainstorming helper. It is a systematic creativity machine that transforms research hypotheses into diverse solution spaces via 10 parallel campaigns spanning structural, analogical, destructive, and combinatorial methods. It generates — it does not converge, validate, or implement.
- 🏗️ Structural deconstruction — SCAMPER, TRIZ contradiction resolution, component surgery, and trimming to reshape existing solutions
- 🌉 Cross-domain discovery — bisociation networks, analogical transfer, and design-by-analogy to import solutions from unrelated fields
- 💥 Assumption destruction — axiom negation, reverse brainstorming, sacred cow hunting, and anti-benchmarking to break paradigmatic constraints
- 🦎 Biomimicry — Design Spiral, BioTRIZ, organism discovery, and biological strategy extraction for nature-inspired solutions
- 🔮 Synectics — Gordon's four analogy types (direct, personal, symbolic, fantasy) with excursion methods
- 📐 Morphological exploration — Zwicky box, cross-consistency analysis, and general morphological analysis for systematic combination enumeration
- 🎲 Lateral thinking — de Bono PO provocations, random entry, concept fan, and movement extraction
- 🧬 Combinatorial creativity — Fauconnier-Turner conceptual blending, recombination architecture, and forced connections
- 🎭 Perspective forcing — Six Hats rotation, role-based ideation, temporal projection, and stakeholder simulation
- 📊 Systematic enumeration — benchmark sweep, method-problem matrix, failure taxonomy, and factorial ideation
Each campaign is a self-contained creative domain with its own strategies, tactics, and subagent SOPs. The engine enforces quantitative budget floors via State Ledgers and HARD-GATEs — creativity is systematic, not random. Saturation detection prevents infinite loops while ensuring sufficient exploration depth.
The engine STOPS at idea generation. Convergence, validation, and implementation belong to downstream repos.
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│ ENTRY.md │
│ (routing table + orchestration) │
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│ │
│ Campaign (10) — self-contained creative domain │
│ └── Strategy (5 per campaign) │
│ └── Tactic (2-3 per campaign) │
│ └── SOP (subagent or import) │
│ │
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│ Shared Components │
│ ├── 5 import SOPs (web-search, paper-overview...) │
│ ├── 9 shared subagent SOPs (saturation, novelty..) │
│ └── 4 shared tactics (evaluation, provocation...) │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘| # | Campaign | Method Family | Strategies |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | structural-deconstruction | SCAMPER, TRIZ, SIT | 5 |
| 2 | cross-domain-discovery | Bisociation, analogical transfer | 5 |
| 3 | assumption-destruction | Axiom negation, reverse brainstorming | 5 |
| 4 | biomimicry | Design Spiral, BioTRIZ | 5 |
| 5 | synectics | Gordon's 4 analogy types | 5 |
| 6 | morphological-exploration | Zwicky box, CCA, GMA | 5 |
| 7 | lateral-thinking | de Bono PO/movement | 5 |
| 8 | combinatorial-creativity | Fauconnier-Turner blending | 5 |
| 9 | perspective-forcing | Six Hats, role-based | 5 |
| 10 | systematic-enumeration | Coverage analysis, failure taxonomy | 5 |
| Dependency | Provides |
|---|---|
web-browsing |
web-search + web-research SOPs |
literature-engine |
paper-overview + paper-search + paper-research SOPs |
subagent-spawning |
Subagent dispatch conventions |
context-management |
Checkpoint protocol |
| Tool | Server | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| brave_web_search | brave-search | General web search |
| brave_llm_context | brave-search | Deep content extraction |
| apify/rag-web-browser | apify | Full page scraping |
| get_paper_content | alphaxiv | Academic paper content |
| discover_papers | alphaxiv | Paper discovery |
| relevanceSearch | semantic-scholar | Literature search |
| paper | semantic-scholar | Paper details |
| citations | semantic-scholar | Citation networks |
- 188 skill directories
- 287 total files
- 10 campaigns × 5 strategies each = 50 strategies
- 99 subagent SOPs with prompt templates
- 4 shared tactics + campaign-specific tactics
A component of the De-Anthropocentric Research Engine, part of the Yogsoth AI ecosystem. Built by Pthahnix.