Idea Refine

by addyosmani

Idea Refine is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by addyosmani in agent-skills.

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Install Idea Refine

Copy Idea Refine 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/addyosmani/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/idea-refine ~/.claude/skills/idea-refine

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/addyosmani/agent-skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/idea-refine/SKILL.md in addyosmani/agent-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/idea-refine
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Idea Refine does

Idea Refine turns vague ideas into sharp, actionable concepts through structured divergent and convergent thinking. Use it when an idea is still unclear, before committing to a plan, or to stress-test assumptions.

Idea Refine is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Idea Refine comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, antigravity, claude-code, codex and cursor.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Idea Refine

Refines raw ideas into sharp, actionable concepts worth building through structured divergent and convergent thinking.

How It Works

Understand & Expand (Divergent): Restate the idea, ask sharpening questions, and generate variations.
Evaluate & Converge: Cluster ideas, stress-test them, and surface hidden assumptions.
Sharpen & Ship: Produce a concrete markdown one-pager moving work forward.

Usage

This skill is primarily an interactive dialogue. Invoke it with an idea, and the agent will guide you through the process.

# Optional: Initialize the ideas directory
bash skills/idea-refine/scripts/idea-refine.sh

Trigger Phrases:

"Help me refine this idea"
"Ideate on [concept]"
"Stress-test my plan"

Output

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

Frequently asked about Idea Refine

What else does addyosmani publish alongside Idea Refine?
Idea Refine is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from addyosmani/agent-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API and Interface Design, Agent Skill Discovery and Browser Testing. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Idea Refine does, and is maintained by addyosmani in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the addyosmani/agent-skills page.
How does Idea Refine compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Idea Refine ranks #52 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 Idea Refine against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.