A round-based AI system that evolves raw ideas into structured, high-potential concepts through iterative competition and Darwinian selection.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install idea-darwin
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install idea-darwin using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Idea Darwin Engine?
The Idea Darwin Engine is a sophisticated framework designed to treat concepts as living organisms within an evolutionary ecosystem. By using Openclaw Skills to automate the lifecycle of an idea, the system moves beyond static lists and forces competition, refinement, and cross-pollination. This approach prevents the common pitfall of brainstorming where ideas remain vague and unvetted, instead pushing them through a rigorous selection process.
Through a structured state machine and multi-layered scoring, Idea Darwin identifies high-potential concepts while flagging weak ones for review. It utilizes structured rounds to deepen logic, test feasibility, and even introduce external disruption stimuli to break mental ruts. This ensures that only the most robust ideas survive and evolve into actionable project plans.
Idea Darwin Engine Use Cases
- Transforming raw brainstorming notes into actionable project roadmaps.
- Systematically identifying the most feasible and high-value startup concepts.
- Breaking creative blocks through forced cross-pollination and external disruption rounds.
- Managing a high-volume idea pool without manual overhead using Openclaw Skills.
- Validating technical logic and feasibility for complex engineering proposals.
How Idea Darwin Engine Works
- Initialization: The system parses your raw ideas.md file and sets up a local project structure including configuration and stimulus files.
- Idea Categorization: Each idea is transformed into a structured Markdown card with unique IDs and initial 6-dimension scoring.
- Budgeted Rounds: Each execution round selects ideas based on priority scores to undergo specific actions like deepening, derivation, or critiquing.
- Evolution & Crossbreeding: High-potential ideas are merged or evolved into new offspring while maintaining a clear lineage graph.
- Validation & Reporting: The AI performs fatal flaw checks and generates a comprehensive round briefing with actionable decisions for the user.
Idea Darwin Engine Setup
To begin evolving your ideas, initialize the system in your project directory:
/idea-darwin init --budget 12 --actions 2
To execute a selection and evolution round:
/idea-darwin round
To check the current status of your idea pool:
/idea-darwin status
Idea Darwin Engine Data Schema & Taxonomy
The system maintains a structured directory to track the evolutionary history of your concepts:
| File/Directory | Description |
|---|---|
| config.yaml | Stores system state, next idea IDs, and round parameters. |
| cards/*.md | Individual Markdown files for each idea containing scores, lineage, and history. |
| rounds/*.md | Detailed reports of every action and score change for a specific round. |
| graph/relations.json | A JSON map of inter-idea similarities and parent-child relationships. |
| stimuli.md | A user-editable list of external trends and stimuli used in disruption rounds. |
Idea Darwin Engine Advanced Features
- Disruption Rounds: Automated introduction of external trends and innovation frameworks to prevent local optima.
- Three-Layer Scoring: Advanced weighted calculations for Survival, Development, and Priority to balance novelty with feasibility.
- Lineage Tracking: Full traceability of how ideas have evolved, merged, or branched over time.
- Assumption Reversal: Specialized critique modes that challenge the core logic of top-scoring ideas during disruption phases.
- Custom Stimuli Integration: Support for user-defined external data points to influence the evolutionary path via Openclaw Skills.
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