innovate
Innovate
Overview
All subagent dispatches use disk-mediated dispatch. See shared/dispatch-convention.md for the full protocol.
Sweep-mode runs (multiple innovate invocations against the same target) maintain an Invariant Cairn per shared/cairn-convention.md. Single-run invocations do NOT — they're too short. See ## Cairn (Layer 3) below.
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."
Cairn (Layer 3)
Per shared/cairn-convention.md. Innovate-specific bindings:
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