What do I need to use Generate, Then Execute?

The prompt; Roughly how many; The judging criteria; Constraints.

Is Generate, Then Execute free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Generate, Then Execute

Q: How do I know the Generate, Then Execute output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The generation pass contains NO evaluation or hedging; Volume/range is high; it pushes past the obvious ideas; There's a clean, explicit break between the two modes; The critique pass is genuinely hard, not gentle.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-08-06 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-thinking

Separate raw idea-generation from judgment so creativity isn't strangled by your inner critic — diverge with zero evaluation, then switch to hard critique. Use when asked to brainstorm properly, help me come up with ideas without shutting them down, I keep censoring my own ideas, or separate creating from editing. Produces a pure generation pass (quantity, no judging, no hedging, wild allowed), a clean break, then a separate ruthless critique pass that scores and prunes — because doing both at once produces neither.

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🗣 Say this to your agent

“Help me brainstorm without shutting my own ideas down.”“I keep editing while I create and get nothing done — separate the two.”“Do a proper divergent brainstorm, then tear it apart.”“Generate a ton of options for this, then judge them.”“Give me quantity first, quality second.”

What to give it

▸The prompt — what you're generating ideas for

▸Roughly how many — a target volume for the generation pass (more than feels comfortable)

▸The judging criteria — what "good" means, applied only in the critique pass

▸Constraints — real ones (for the critic), not imagined ones (which the generator ignores)

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓The generation pass contains NO evaluation or hedging

✓Volume/range is high; it pushes past the obvious ideas

✓There's a clean, explicit break between the two modes

✓The critique pass is genuinely hard, not gentle

✓Survivors are justified against the real criteria

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**Judging while generating** — "here's an idea, though it probably won't work."

**Too few ideas** in the generation pass.

**A soft critique** that keeps everything.

**Letting real constraints** shut down the generation pass (save them for the critic).

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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