Can I use Ideate for frontend and UI design?

Yes, it includes a dedicated phase for establishing aesthetic direction and creating ASCII wireframes to plan layouts and user flows efficiently within the terminal.

What is the Ideate skill for Claude Code?

Ideate is a specialized capability that guides developers through a structured process of exploring, validating, and documenting software features before implementation begins.

How does Ideate use multiple AI agents?

It spawns specialized sub-agents like architecture-strategists and security-sentinels to perform parallel reviews of your design, ensuring high-quality feedback.

Does Ideate help with existing codebases?

Absolutely. It uses automated tools to analyze your existing project structure, git history, and documentation to ensure new designs align with established patterns.

Ideate for Arc

Name: Ideate for Arc
Author: howells

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Productivity & Workflow

Transforms abstract ideas into validated architectural designs and technical plans through a collaborative, multi-agent review process.

Ideate is a comprehensive design-first workflow for Claude Code that bridges the gap between initial concepts and working implementations. It facilitates a structured, multi-phase dialogue that includes deep codebase exploration, competitive approach analysis, and incremental design reviews powered by specialized AI sub-agents. By enforcing architectural thinking, generating ASCII UI wireframes, and capturing Figma context, Ideate ensures that every feature is thoroughly validated and documented before a single line of application code is written.

Key Features

01Standardized design document generation with automated progress journaling

02Parallel multi-agent expert reviews for architecture, security, and data integrity

03Interactive ASCII UI wireframing with guided aesthetic direction

04Immediate capture of Figma screenshots and external reference materials

05Automated codebase and git history analysis to identify patterns and constraints

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Use Cases

01Validating technical approaches and trade-offs before starting large refactors

02Collaborative UI/UX planning using structured ASCII layouts and flow analysis

03Architecting complex new features that require cross-module coordination

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add howells/arc ideate

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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