Creative Ideation Routing¶

Creative ideation routing is the agent-workflow pattern for turning open-ended inspiration requests into method-routed idea generation instead of generic brainstorming.

Runtime rule¶

When Jamie asks for inspiration, project ideas, weirdness, options, research questions, or a way out of a stale creative loop:

1. Load the creative-ideation Hermes skill.
2. Classify phase, domain, and specificity.
3. Apply overrides for mood, named method, method recommendation, or high-slop terrain.
4. Route to one named method.
5. Generate concrete, non-obvious ideas with mechanisms, tradeoffs, and at least one grounded first step.

Why this belongs in Agent Workflows¶

This is not a new Pixi Wiki namespace. It is a reusable skill-routing behavior: Jamie states the creative need, Pixoid chooses the method and skill constraints, then returns any chosen idea to the normal product/build gates.

Quality bar¶

Good ideation output:

• names the method used;
• avoids obvious first ideas;
• uses concrete mechanisms and situations;
• states failure modes or tradeoffs;
• includes at least one buildable option;
• stops ideating once Jamie chooses.

Bad output is unrouted LLM slop: generic lists, vague app nouns, no method, no mechanism, no tradeoff, and no first step.

Relationships¶

• Agent Skill Routing chooses when to load creative-ideation.
• Matt Pocock SDLC Rhythm takes over after Jamie chooses an idea.
• Cross-namespace product lenses such as Interaction Mode Routing decide which surface should carry a selected idea.

Source¶

Canonical source: Knowledge/concepts/creative-ideation-routing.md.

Reusable Hermes skill: ~/.hermes/skills/creative/creative-ideation/SKILL.md.