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Step 01 · Shape the idea
f-sketch
/f-sketchskill
Write down a rough idea and its open questions, before anything is decided.
- On site
Before a job, the very first step: when an idea is worth keeping but not ready to decide.
A notes file, not a plan: what's agreed so far, the open questions and the options turned down. When it's ready it moves on to f-survey.
- When
When you have an idea worth writing down but you're not ready to decide anything about it yet.
Say it tap to copy
capture this ideaspec this concept out
Not forDecision-complete work (f-blueprint), settling decisions (f-survey), a job's own plan (the foreman's PLAN.md), or single Logbook cards (f-card).
It's working if
- It wrote exactly one file,
foreman/ideas/IDEA-YYYY-MM-DD_<short-slug>.md, or placed it inside an existing idea directory and said so. - The file opens with a title, a date, a status saying the discussion is open, a banner saying it is not a plan of record and not executable, and one line on where it came from.
- Settled points appear as
A0…agreements and open questions asQ0…, with the options as they were discussed, not resolved. - Nothing in it was invented: no locked decision tables, no ordered tasks, no answers to questions you never answered.
foreman/blueprints/README.mdhas one new bullet for it in the Ideas section, naming what blocks promotion.- The report gives the path, a one-line summary, the counts of agreements, open questions and rejected options, and the blocking questions.
- It opened no job, wrote no plan or code, and staged, committed and pushed nothing.
Where it sits
The path an idea takes from a brainstorm to jobs, exactly as the skill draws it.
brainstorm → /f-sketch → more discussion → /f-survey → /f-blueprint → /f-plancheck → foreman/blueprints/ready/ (plan carries its `gate: plancheck` line) → /f-schedule → jobs
Common questions
- Why does it keep my open questions instead of answering them?
- Its rule is fidelity over closure. An idea file with honest open questions is complete; one with invented answers is treated as corrupt.
- What if we have actually settled everything?
- It says so and points you to
/f-blueprintinstead, so a finished decision doesn't end up as a weaker thinking file. - How does an idea become a job?
- Once its open questions close, it goes through
/f-survey, then/f-blueprint,/f-plancheckand/f-schedule. The idea file itself is never executed. - We talked about two ideas. Can it capture both?
- One spec per run. If several distinct concepts came up, it asks which one to capture.
- It used to be called something else?
- Yes:
/f-ideastill works.
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