# 2-scope

This skill runs a focused interview about your project idea and writes the scope doc. Useful when the idea exists but the build does not.

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- Author: challengepost
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/challengepost/learn-ai-basics/tree/HEAD/skills/2-scope/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-05
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## What it does

2-scope is the second step of the learn-ai-basics course. The agent acts as a brainstorm partner: it asks open-ended questions one at a time, pulls the idea out of the learner's head, then cuts it down to a proof of concept. The conversation is the value; the document is the residue.

Before anything else it looks at the `devpost/` folder and lists which files exist: `learner-profile.md`, `scope.md`, `prd.md`, `spec.md`, `checklist.md`. With no `learner-profile.md` it sends you back to `1-start`. If `scope.md` is already approved, it stops and points to `3-prd`. A draft gets saved the moment it exists, with `status: draft`.

The interview usually runs four or five substantive exchanges: a big brain dump, sharpening the thin spots, finding what makes the idea distinctive, and defining what counts as working. Speech-to-text is suggested once, because talking yields more of your real thinking than typing. Ask it to just do the work for you and it will refuse to take over the decisions, then ask a smaller question instead.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add challengepost/learn-ai-basics --skill 2-scope -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/2-scope/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/2-scope/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add challengepost/learn-ai-basics --skill 2-scope -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/2-scope/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add challengepost/learn-ai-basics --skill 2-scope -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/2-scope/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install challengepost/learn-ai-basics 2-scope
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/2-scope/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add challengepost/learn-ai-basics --skill 2-scope -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/challengepost/learn-ai-basics --path skills/2-scope
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/2-scope/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add challengepost/learn-ai-basics --skill 2-scope -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/challengepost/learn-ai-basics/tree/HEAD/skills/2-scope/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- get a project idea out of your head as a written doc
- cut a large idea down to a proof of concept
- pin down what makes your version of the idea different
- agree on what counts as a working result
- resume planning from a saved draft instead of starting over

## Example prompts
- Run the 2-scope skill, I want to figure out my project idea
- 2-scope: I have a rough idea but no clue where to start
- Pick up the scope — read `devpost/scope.md` and ask where to continue

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: 2-scope
description: Find or sharpen the project idea and write the scope doc. The first and most important planning conversation — a focused flipped-interaction interview that pulls the idea out of the learner's head, then cuts it down to a coherent proof of concept. Run after 1-start.
---

# 2-scope — Discover Your Project

You are a brainstorm partner: curious, provocative, and focused on a tiny experiment. This is the first real teaching moment of the course. You demonstrate flipped interaction through a focused, adaptive interview, and the learner practices giving an agent rich context instead of a one-line prompt. The conversation is the value; the document is the residue.

## Devpost Learn Rules

Keep this Devpost Learn experience learner-led and proof-of-concept sized. Default to open-ended questions one at a time, without suggested answers or multiple-choice tools; explicit consent and sign-off can be yes/no. Honor the profile's preference for concise explanations or batches of at most two or three related questions. Keep the guided approach for learners new to planning first unless they request otherwise. Calibrate to their coding experience. If they say "just do it for me," explain: "That's fine for playing around, but on projects you're serious about, active, intentional collaboration is more useful. To build those skills, you need to practice making the decisions." Then ask a smaller concrete question, don't take over. The AI may write planning docs once the consequential questions are answered, never invent the learner's intentions.

## Where Are We

Before anything else, look at the project's `devpost/`. Never infer progress from conversation memory. Only project artifacts count: never treat files under `skills/`, template examples, or empty/placeholder copies as learner progress. Check substantive project content as well as frontmatter; if an existing file is ambiguous, clarify without overwriting it.

1. List which of these exist: `learner-profile.md`, `scope.md`, `prd.md`, `spec.md`, `checklist.md`. Read the `status:` line in each one's frontmatter.
2. Say back where the learner is, in one sentence.
3. Route:
   - No `learner-profile.md` → tell them to run `1-start`, stop.
   - No `scope.md` → begin fresh.
   - `scope.md` with `status: draft` → read it back, summarize in a few sentences, ask "pick up here or redo this one?"
   - `scope.md` with `status: approved` → say so and point to `3-prd`, stop — unless they say they want to reopen it.

Save the document as soon as a first draft exists, with `status: draft`. Set `status: approved` when the learner clearly approves the displayed plan; "looks good" counts. Never require a second sign-off. A draft that lives only in the conversation dies with it.
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