Heuresis Protocol

by jongwony

Heuresis Protocol is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by jongwony in epistemic-protocols.

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Install Heuresis Protocol

Copy Heuresis Protocol 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/jongwony/epistemic-protocols/tree/main/heuresis/skills/ideate ~/.claude/skills/ideate

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/jongwony/epistemic-protocols.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: heuresis/skills/ideate/SKILL.md in jongwony/epistemic-protocols
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/ideate
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Heuresis Protocol does

Heuresis Protocol widens an underexpanded idea field by generating diverse candidates in parallel without ranking or eliminating them. Use it when a topic is blank or has converged too early and you need more possibilities before choosing.

Heuresis Protocol is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Heuresis Protocol comes from a repository tagged ai-collaboration, claude-code, epistemology, metacognition and plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Heuresis Protocol

Resolve an underexpanded candidate field through frame-parallel divergent generation, without ever eliminating, ranking, or selecting among the candidates it produces. Type: (CandidateFieldUnderexpanded, User, DIVERGE, IdeationRequest) → DiverseCandidateField.

Definition

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

Commands Heuresis Protocol provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/ideate
/inquire
/preview

Frequently asked about Heuresis Protocol

What else does jongwony publish alongside Heuresis Protocol?
Heuresis Protocol is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from jongwony/epistemic-protocols, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Aitesis Protocol, Analogia Protocol and Contextualize. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Heuresis Protocol does, and is maintained by jongwony in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the jongwony/epistemic-protocols page.
How does Heuresis Protocol compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Heuresis Protocol ranks #3435 by stars among the 3670 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 Heuresis Protocol against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.