# Ce Ideate

Generate and evaluate grounded ideas.

- Repository: https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin (25818 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-ideate -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-ideate -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-ideate -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-ideate -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin`

## Description

Generate and evaluate grounded ideas. Use when the user wants ideas, improvements, or surprising directions before choosing one to develop. Not for refining an idea they already have (ce-brainstorm) or judging one already on the table (ce-pov).

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Generate Improvement Ideas

`ce-ideate` runs before `ce-brainstorm`. This skill answers "which ideas are worth exploring?" `ce-brainstorm` then answers what one chosen idea should mean. `ce-plan` answers how it gets built.

**Done:** a ranked ideation artifact is written to `<root>/ideation/` when that root is present, else to a CE temp path. Every idea generated has been critiqued, and the survivors are explained. The user is left holding the next-steps menu. No requirements, plans, or code.

## Boundaries

The rest: https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin/blob/HEAD/skills/ce-ideate/SKILL.md