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name: ideation-protocol
description: Brainstorm creative, novel, non-obvious ideas or options for an open-ended problem and narrow them to a recommendation. Not for writing prose, research, explanation, summaries, or questions with one right answer.
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- IDEATE prioritizing novelty over feasibility. Do not filter.
  - Choose 3–5 distinct people who'd see this differently. For each, generate 3 short candidate ideas.
  - Choose 2 UNRELATED domains and for each, extract 3 atomic structural rules, and use them to create 4 more candidate ideas.
  - List the 5 most obvious / conventional ideas across all candidates. Ban them, along with near-duplicates.
  - Merge all remaining ideas removing overlaps. Keep the set maximally diverse across mechanisms, users, and time horizons.
- CONVERGE:
  - Critique each surviving idea: what assumption must hold, why it is non-obvious, and why it may fail.
  - Score each idea on impact, novelty, and speed.
  - Recommend the best practical idea(s) and the best wildcard idea(s), explaining the non-obvious insight each is built on.