# Parallel Idea Generation

Generates, scores and prunes ideas across several thinking frames before deepening the best.

- Repository: https://github.com/UditAkhourii/adhd (4495 stars)
- Category: AI and agents
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-25
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add UditAkhourii/adhd --skill adhd -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add UditAkhourii/adhd --skill adhd -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add UditAkhourii/adhd --skill adhd -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add UditAkhourii/adhd --skill adhd -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add UditAkhourii/adhd`

## Description

Parallel divergent ideation for coding agents. Spawns N isolated branches under different cognitive frames (regulator, biology, speedrunner, 10-year-old, $0 budget), scores, clusters, prunes traps, and deepens top survivors. Use on /adhd, "ADHD mode", brainstorm/ideate intents, or open-ended design, architecture, naming, API/SDK surface, and fuzzy-debugging decisions. Skip for syntax, lookups, bugs with known root cause, or closed phrasing ("quick", "standard", "canonical", "textbook"). Full pre-flight gate is in the skill body.

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

# ADHD

Stop picking the textbook answer. The first three answers the model would
give are the answers a senior engineer would give in thirty seconds.
Correct. Forgettable. The interesting answers live past number three, in
the awkward middle nobody walks into. This skill makes the model walk
there.

## Pre-flight (run before Phase 1)

This skill is expensive. About 10 Agent calls, 30 to 90 seconds wall clock,
5 to 10x a single answer. Do not pay that cost when a direct answer is
better. Run this gate before Phase 1.

**Step 1. Explicit invocation check.**

If the user typed `/adhd` or explicitly asked for ADHD mode, "use the
adhd skill", or "run ADHD on this", **SKIP the rest of this section and go
straight to Phase 1**. The user opted in. Do not second-guess.

**Step 2. Self-judge (only if Step 1 did not match).**

Ask yourself three questions. If the answer to any is no, ABORT.

1. **Open-ended?** Would a senior engineer give multiple viable answers
   here, or is there one canonical answer? If canonical, abort.
2. **High-stakes?** Is the cost of the obvious answer being wrong actually
   high? Architecture decisions, public API surfaces, naming a real
   product, fuzzy bugs with no known root cause, schema design = yes.
   Side project at 11pm = no.
3. **Open phrasing?** Did the user avoid words like "quick", "standard",
   "canonical", "textbook", "just", "one-line"? If they used any of those,
   they want the direct answer. Abort.

If all three checks pass, proceed to Phase 1.

If any fails, ABORT and answer the question directly. Optionally append
one sentence: *"If you want a wider exploration under parallel cognitive
frames with explicit trap detection, run `/adhd <your problem>`."*

## The loop

Two strict phases. Mixing them kills idea quality, because the critic
strangles the generator.

### Phase 1, Diverge (no critic)

For the problem P:

The rest: https://github.com/UditAkhourii/adhd/blob/HEAD/skills/adhd/SKILL.md