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A Claude Skill for Structured Thought Process

When you activate it, you question your assumptions. It's unopinionated about direction, but opinionated about process.

A Claude Skill for Structured Thought Process
Cristian Morales

Cristian Morales

Product Designer

· 3 min read

What Are Claude Skills?

Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills are folders that include instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load when needed. Claude only accesses a skill when it's relevant to the task. When used, skills make Claude better at specialized tasks. Like working with specific frameworks or following your process.

The Spec-Ideation Skill

I created a skill to use Claude as a facilitator that guides you through my AI Ideation Framework. When you activate it, Claude asks questions. What's the context? What are the constraints? What edge cases matter?

You start refining. Claude surfaces trade-offs you didn't see. You question your assumptions. It's unopinionated about direction, but opinionated about process. The process guides you. The direction is yours. The skill keeps you iterating until you reach clarity.

You don't get code. You don't get finished products.

You get thinking made explicit.

After a session with the skill, you have:

  • Clarity on what you're building: not vague intuition, but defined requirements
  • Trade-offs documented: you know what you chose and what you didn't, and why
  • Specifications: enough detail to actually build
  • A record of decisions: so when you return later, you remember why you built it this way

This is portable. It doesn't matter if you build in Claude directly, in Lovable, in your IDE. The specs apply everywhere.


Download Claude AI Ideation Skill

How to Get Started

  1. Download the skill — spec-ideation.skill
  2. Add it to Claude — Settings → Skills → Upload
  3. Start a conversation: Describe a problem or idea
  4. Claude handles the rest

How It's Different

Most planning tools give you templates. You fill them out. They assume what matters.

This skill doesn't assume. It asks. It listens. It refines based on your answers.

Example

I need a tool that normalizes contact data from spreadsheets.
Where does this data come from? What format? What's the destination? Edge cases?
Mailchimp exports. Names mixed formats, sometimes all caps.
CLI or web app? Different implications for each.
Web. Non-technical users need it.
That changes the architecture. Let's think through what that means...

[Iterates until clarity]

You have enough clarity. Should I document this as a spec?
Yeah, let's do it!!

[Generates spec with decisions documented]

30 minutes. From idea to spec. No guessing.

Learn More

Learn the Framework and make it yours

Download the Claude AI Ideation Skill

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More on Claude Skills? Read the Anthropic blog
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