Plan & ideate

These skills run before implementation. They turn a vague idea into a concrete, reviewable plan, surface edge cases early, and apply systematic reasoning when you're stuck.

When to reach for each

/wield:idea-generation

Brainstorm solutions with trade-off analysis and brutal honesty. Use for ideation, architecture decisions, technical debates, feature exploration, feasibility assessment, and design discussions — when you want options weighed honestly rather than a single confident answer.

/wield:implementation-planning

Plan implementations, design architectures, and create technical roadmaps with detailed phases. Use for feature planning, system design, and implementation strategy. Supports a --parallel mode that produces phases with strict file-ownership boundaries for parallel execution by wield:fullstack-developer agents.

/wield:scenario-mapping

Generate comprehensive edge cases and test scenarios by decomposing a feature across 12 dimensions. Use for pre-implementation risk discovery, QA planning, regression design, and iterative saturation when coverage must be exhaustive.

/wield:change-prediction

Have five expert personas debate a proposed change before implementation. Catches architectural, security, performance, and UX issues early. Use before major features or risky changes.

/wield:problem-solving

Apply systematic problem-solving techniques when stuck — for complexity spirals, innovation blocks, recurring patterns, assumption constraints, simplification cascades, and scale uncertainty.

Typical sequence