# scenario-inspiration

A skill for creative tasks with no direction yet: it gathers references, proposes concepts to pick between, and turns the pick into a moodboard.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 429 installs · ★ 1141
- Author: scenario-labs
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/scenario-labs/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/scenario-inspiration/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/scenario-inspiration

## What it does

Ask an agent for inspiration and it averages. You get the most typical answer for the brief, and so does everyone else with a similar brief. This skill replaces that with four phases: prime, widen, choose, board. Constraints get locked first, the open axis gets named, then references come in, then three or four mutually exclusive directions, and finally the winner becomes a collection.

A script does the far-domain draws: `scripts/wildcard.py`, run from the skill directory as `python3 scripts/wildcard.py --count 4`. It samples a corpus and prints its seed, so a draw can be replayed or deliberately never repeated. Searching covers the team's own assets, the public catalog, and the open web. Public assets belong to their own team — `collection_add_assets` on one returned 403, so foreign references get downloaded and uploaded again.

The skill leans on the sibling `scenario` skill in the same repo. If it is missing from your available skills, ask the user to install it with `npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill <name>`; unattended, the agent proceeds from tool schemas and flags the gap. One more common mistake: handing a model an 18-image board. Reduce to three to six role-tagged references first.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill scenario-inspiration -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill scenario-inspiration -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill scenario-inspiration -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install scenario-labs/skills scenario-inspiration
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill scenario-inspiration -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/scenario-labs/skills --path skills/scenario-inspiration
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill scenario-inspiration -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/scenario-labs/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/scenario-inspiration/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- pick a direction when the task has none
- build a moodboard where every reference has a job
- escape generic AI-looking output
- mine existing team assets for a style
- split a brief into locked constraints and an open axis

## Example prompts
- build me a moodboard for an album cover, no direction chosen yet
- propose four mutually exclusive concepts for the level map
- run the wildcard draw and show what came back from far domains

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: scenario-inspiration
description: "Use when a creative task has no direction yet: finding inspiration, exploring looks or styles, proposing concept directions to pick between, building a moodboard or reference board, doing visual research, mining existing assets for a style, or escaping generic AI-looking output. Also when a saved Scenario collection should drive a new batch as art direction. Keywords: inspiration, moodboard, references, art direction, style exploration, concepts, serendipity, ideation, surprise me."
license: MIT
---

# Scenario Inspiration

## Overview

Asked for inspiration, an agent averages. It returns the most typical answer for the brief, so every
user with a similar brief gets the same look. This skill trades that for four phases: **prime**,
**widen**, **choose**, **board**. Connection and scope: see the `scenario` skill in this repo. If a
sibling skill named here is missing from your available skills, ask the user to install it
(`npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill <name>`); unattended, proceed from tool schemas and
flag the gap.

Four moves carry most of the value. Name the reflex answer for this brief and the answer of someone
merely avoiding that reflex, then rule out both, because an agent told to be original lands on the
second-obvious answer. Randomize the operator, never the subject: what varies is the transformation
applied to the brief, and a random subject is just noise. When you generate candidates yourself
instead of searching for them, ask yourself for a distribution rather than an answer, and work from
its tail. Then make the user pick, because options that never resolve are a gallery, not direction.

## Quick reference

| Phase     | Do                                                                                     | Detail                                                   |
| --------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| 1. Prime  | Locked constraints, the open axis, both reflexes, what counts as a hit                 | [references/widen.md](references/widen.md)               |
| 2. Widen  | Four lanes plus wildcard draws; over-gather, near and far                              | widen.md, [references/sources.md](references/sources.md) |
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