idea-refine for Openclaw

idea-refine transforms raw, ambiguous ideas into structured, actionable concepts through automated analysis, assumption testing, and refinement.

thcjp
v1.0.0
Aug 10, 2026
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Install & Download

1. ClawHub CLI

The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.

npx clawhub@latest install idea-refine

2. Manual Installation

Copy the skill folder to one of these locations

Global
~/.openclaw/skills/
Workspace
<project>/skills/

Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled

3. Prompt Installation

Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.

Help me install idea-refine 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-refine?

idea-refine is an AI agent skill for turning unstructured ideas into clearer, more actionable concepts. It supports structured input processing, divergent and convergent thinking, assumption validation, result analysis, and workflow organization so teams can evaluate ideas before committing development time.

As part of Openclaw Skills, idea-refine is designed for compatible AI agent platforms such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini CLI. It accepts JSON, plain text, or Markdown input, returns structured results with execution metadata, and includes retry, fallback, validation, and traceability capabilities for repeatable idea refinement workflows.

idea-refine Use Cases

  • Refine a vague product, feature, or development idea into a concise actionable concept.
  • Stress-test assumptions before investing engineering or operational resources.
  • Compare multiple ideas in batch using the options.batch_size configuration.
  • Convert ideas between JSON, text, and Markdown workflows.
  • Automate repetitive analysis and reduce manual review effort.
  • Aggregate and analyze ideas from different sources or formats.
  • Prepare structured outputs for downstream planning, documentation, or agent workflows.
  • Diagnose failed processing runs through detailed error information and execution status.
  • Use Openclaw Skills to standardize idea analysis across compatible AI agent environments.

How idea-refine Works

  1. Receive input: The agent accepts a required content value containing the raw idea or ideas to process.
  2. Detect the format: The input may be identified or declared as json, text, or markdown using the optional format parameter.
  3. Validate configuration: The skill checks required parameters, format compatibility, API access, and available processing resources.
  4. Refine the idea: The core idea-refine logic analyzes the content using structured divergent and convergent thinking, assumption validation, and result analysis.
  5. Apply options: Advanced settings such as batch_size and output_format control batch execution and the preferred result format.
  6. Process resiliently: The workflow supports automatic retries for transient failures and fallback handling when repeated attempts fail.
  7. Validate and trace results: Data-source checks and version metadata help preserve accuracy and traceability.
  8. Return a structured response: The agent returns a success state, refined result, metadata, or an error object describing the failure.

idea-refine Setup

Prerequisites

  • A compatible SKILL.md-based AI agent platform, including Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or Gemini CLI.
  • Windows, macOS, or Linux.
  • An LLM API supplied by the selected agent platform.
  • Prepared idea content in JSON, text, or Markdown format.
  • Access to the required data source; the specification identifies GitHub-based source validation.
  • API credentials configured according to the host agent platform.

Register the skill

The specification does not define a package manager, standalone executable, or fixed installation directory. Register the provided SKILL.md in the skill directory or configuration mechanism used by your AI agent:

mkdir -p /path/to/agent/skills/idea-refine
cp SKILL.md /path/to/agent/skills/idea-refine/SKILL.md

Restart or reload the agent, then confirm that idea-refine appears among the available skills. Replace /path/to/agent/skills with the path required by your agent platform.

Configure credentials

Set the LLM or service credential using the environment-variable convention required by your agent. The exact variable name is platform-specific and is not defined in the skill specification:

export YOUR_AGENT_API_KEY="replace-with-your-api-key"

Submit a request

Provide the required content field and optionally specify the input format and processing options. A conceptual request payload is:

{
  "content": "A raw product or development idea to refine",
  "format": "text",
  "options": {
    "output_format": "markdown",
    "batch_size": 1
  }
}

For production use, verify the API permissions, input format, file paths, network access, and agent-specific command syntax before processing sensitive or large inputs.

idea-refine Data Schema & Taxonomy

Request fields

Field Type Required Description
content string Yes Raw idea or source content sent to idea-refine.
format string No Input format: json, text, or markdown.
options object No Advanced settings such as output style and batch size.
options.batch_size number No Number of items processed in a batch.
options.output_format string No Output format: json, text, or markdown.

Response structure

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "result": "Refined idea result",
    "metadata": {
      "skill": "idea-refine",
      "version": "1.0.0",
      "pricing_tier": "L2-advanced"
    }
  },
  "error": null
}

Data organization

  • Input content: The original raw idea, supplied as text, JSON, or Markdown.
  • Processing options: Runtime controls for output formatting and batch execution.
  • Result: The refined, structured concept produced by the skill.
  • Metadata: Skill identifier, version, and pricing tier for traceability.
  • Error state: A structured error value when validation, API access, conversion, or processing fails.
  • Operational logs: Diagnostic information may be used to identify conversion errors, failed batch items, API failures, file problems, and command execution issues.
  • Source validation: GitHub-based source validation is documented as a mechanism for improving accuracy and traceability.

Large files should be processed in chunks to reduce memory consumption. Sensitive content should use encrypted connections and controlled storage, with API access configured according to least-privilege principles.

idea-refine Advanced Features

  • Divergent and convergent refinement: Explore possibilities before narrowing an idea into an actionable direction.
  • Assumption validation: Quickly test the logic and risk behind an idea before development begins.
  • Batch processing: Configure options.batch_size for repeated or multi-item workflows.
  • Multi-format compatibility: Accept JSON, text, and Markdown input and produce JSON, text, or Markdown output.
  • Automatic retries and fallback: Recover from transient failures and downgrade processing when repeated retries fail.
  • Structured metadata: Return skill name, version, pricing tier, result, success state, and error information.
  • Source traceability: Use documented GitHub source validation to support data accuracy and reproducibility.
  • Agent interoperability: Run through SKILL.md-compatible platforms including Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini CLI.
  • Read and exec tool support: Enable agent workflows that inspect inputs and execute approved processing commands.
  • Diagnostics and troubleshooting: Use logs and categorized guidance for API authentication errors, rate limits, timeouts, unsupported formats, permissions, network failures, and batch exceptions.
  • Scalable processing guidance: Support parallelized processing, caching, and resource-aware execution for larger workloads where the host implementation provides them.
  • Human review safeguards: Require manual review for decisions with significant business, technical, or operational consequences.
  • Security controls: Apply encrypted connections, API permission restrictions, system updates, firewall or intrusion-detection controls, and periodic audits when deploying Openclaw Skills in production.

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