Use when a design doc or implementation plan is finalized and you want a divergent creativity injection before adversarial review. Proposes the single most impactful addition.
All subagent dispatches use disk-mediated dispatch. See shared/dispatch-convention.md for the full protocol.
Divergent creativity injection. Dispatches an Innovation subagent to propose the single most impactful addition to an artifact. One shot, not iterative — the red-team that follows is the quality gate.
Core principle: The best ideas often come from asking "what's missing?" after you think you're done.
Announce at start: "I'm using the innovate skill to explore potential improvements."
Not iterative. One shot per artifact. The red-team loop handles quality from there.
Use the innovate-prompt.md template in this directory. Provide:
Model: Opus (creative/architectural work needs the best model)
The subagent returns:
Have the Plan Writer (or equivalent) incorporate the proposal into the artifact. Then proceed to red-teaming — if the addition is YAGNI, the red team will kill it.
Called by:
Pairs with:
See prompt template: innovate/innovate-prompt.md