Creative Ideation

by NousResearch

Creative Ideation is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by NousResearch in hermes-agent.

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Install Creative Ideation

Copy Creative Ideation into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/tree/main/optional-skills/creative/creative-ideation ~/.claude/skills/creative-ideation

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: optional-skills/creative/creative-ideation/SKILL.md in NousResearch/hermes-agent
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/creative-ideation
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Creative Ideation does

Creative Ideation generates ideas via named methods from creative practice. It routes a user's situation to the right technique and produces specific, non-obvious output for any generative or selective question.

Creative Ideation is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Creative Ideation comes from a repository tagged ai, ai-agent, ai-agents, anthropic and chatgpt.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Creative Ideation

A library of ideation methods for any domain. Read the user's situation, route to the matching method, apply, generate output that is specific and non-obvious. Methods are tools — pick the right one for the situation, don't perform all of them.

When to use

Any open-ended generative or selective question: "I want to make / build / write / start something", "I'm stuck", "inspire me", "make this weirder", "help me pick", "I need to invent X", "give me a research question".

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Creative Ideation

What else does NousResearch publish alongside Creative Ideation?
Creative Ideation is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from NousResearch/hermes-agent, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include 1-3-1 Communication Rule, Antigravity CLI and Article Illustrator. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Creative Ideation does, and is maintained by NousResearch in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the NousResearch/hermes-agent page.
How does Creative Ideation compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Creative Ideation ranks #13 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Creative Ideation against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.