# ice-score

Rank product ideas with ICE scores based on Impact, Confidence, and Ease. The skill gets Confidence from the Confidence Meter and multiplies the three values.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 47
- Author: haabe
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/haabe/mycelium/tree/HEAD/plugins/mycelium/skills/ice-score/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/ice-score

## What it does

ice-score compares product ideas using Impact, Confidence, and Ease, each rated from 0 to 10. It multiplies the ratings to produce an ICE score, with Confidence drawn from the Confidence Meter. Scores produced by an earlier formula cannot be compared directly with this one.

The skill is built for the Mycelium framework. Run it on its own and canvas state, theory gates, and harness behavior are skipped. Before changing `.claude/canvas/*.yml`, read each file with the Read tool; before assigning an ID, check the existing IDs with Bash grep. Without Mycelium, some of the behavior the skill expects will not run.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add haabe/mycelium --skill ice-score -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add haabe/mycelium --skill ice-score -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add haabe/mycelium --skill ice-score -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install haabe/mycelium ice-score
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add haabe/mycelium --skill ice-score -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/haabe/mycelium --path plugins/mycelium/skills/ice-score
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add haabe/mycelium --skill ice-score -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/haabe/mycelium/tree/HEAD/plugins/mycelium/skills/ice-score/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- rank product ideas with ICE scores
- prioritize options in a backlog
- assess an idea’s Confidence using the Confidence Meter
- check for an unused ID before adding a canvas entry

## Example prompts
- Score these product ideas with ICE and explain their Confidence using the Confidence Meter.
- Compare the backlog options by Impact, Confidence, and Ease.
- Add an entry to `.claude/canvas/opportunities.yml` and check which ID is free first.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: ice-score
description: "Use to prioritize solutions or opportunities using ICE scoring with evidence-backed confidence."
metadata:
  instruction_budget: "35"
  framework_dependency: "mycelium"
  framework_dependency_note: "This skill is designed to run within the Mycelium framework (https://github.com/haabe/mycelium). Standalone use will skip the canvas state, theory gates, and harness behavior the skill assumes. Install: /plugin install mycelium@haabe-mycelium."
---

# ICE Score Skill

ICE scoring as Itamar Gilad defines it: Impact x Confidence x Ease, each 0-10, with Confidence taken from his Confidence Meter.

## Preflight: Read target canvas file(s) before any Write/Edit

**Hard rule.** Before issuing `Write` or `Edit` against any `.claude/canvas/*.yml`, use the **Read tool** on that file in this session. Claude Code's Read-before-Write check requires the `Read` tool specifically — `cat`/`head`/`grep` via Bash do NOT satisfy it.

**Edit vs Write — different cost profiles** (verified 2026-05-14):
- **`Edit`** (exact-string replacement): `Read` with `limit: 1` satisfies the check at ~50 tokens. State-tracking is per-file, not per-byte — subsequent `Edit` calls work anywhere in the file. Use this for partial updates against large canvas files (e.g., `purpose.yml` at 800+ lines).
- **`Write`** (full replacement): do a **full Read** first. Write obliterates the file; you should see what you're about to replace. The `limit:1` shortcut is *not* appropriate here.

**ID-bearing entries — scan the ID space before assigning** (added 2026-05-15, v0.23.19): When adding a new component, opportunity, solution, or any other ID-bearing entry to a canvas file, run a Bash grep first to confirm the next ID in your prefix sequence is actually free:

```
grep -o "<prefix>-[0-9][0-9]*" .claude/canvas/<file>.yml | sort -u -t- -k2 -n | tail -3
```

Replace `<prefix>` with the canvas's ID prefix (`comp` for landscape, `opp` for opportunities, `sol` for solutions, `ht` for human-tasks, etc.). Then pick the next free integer, **matching the zero-padding already used in that file**. The sort is NUMERIC (`-t- -k2 -n`) rather than lexical, and that is not pedantry: a plain `sort -u` orders `ht-1` after `ht-080`, so on a canvas with inconsistent padding it reports the wrong maximum and the next ID collides. Verified on the dogfood repo 2026-08-13, where lexical sort returned `ht-1` as the highest human-task ID against an actual `ht-080`. `grep -o` is also deliberate: it matches IDs wherever they appear, including cross-references and prose, so an ID that was promised somewhere but not yet defined is not handed out twice. `validate_canvas.py` has a per-file duplicate-ID check (it reports `duplicate id '<id>'`) that catches the failure on CI, but a duplicate can persist in the working tree for days if CI isn't run between edit and discovery; that happened on 2026-05-15, when a duplicate ID was created in `landscape.yml`.
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