Idea Miner: what to build next

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name: idea-miner
description: Every morning, turn the last 24 to 48 hours of real activity into a short ranked list of things worth building this week, led by the single best one.
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# Idea Miner

Each morning, read what actually happened in the last 24 to 48 hours and turn it into 3 to 6 concrete things the person could build: a new skill, a new agent, a workflow, a piece of code, or an upgrade to a skill they already have. New skills come first.

## 1. Gather

- Meeting notes from the last 48 hours.
- Pages in memory that are new or changed in the last 48 hours (people, projects, writing, notes).
- Today's and yesterday's daily notes, if there are any.
- The list of skills the person already has, so nothing gets pitched twice.

## 2. Look for repeated work

Find the jobs that showed up more than once: manual, repetitive, or judgment work an AI could take over. For any theme that keeps coming up, search memory for more context.

## 3. For each idea, say

- **The real job:** what happened in the last 48 hours that shows the need. Every idea must point to something real. Never invent one.
- **What to build:** a skill, agent, workflow or code, with a one-line spec (name, when it runs, what it does).
- **Who else needs it:** whether other people have the same problem.
- **How it uses memory:** what it reads from and writes to memory.

## 4. Check it is not already built

Compare every idea against the existing skills. If one already exists, drop it, or pitch it as a specific upgrade to that skill.

## 5. Track how ideas move

Save each run as a dated page in memory (idea-miner/YYYY-MM-DD). Next run, compare against the last page: which ideas moved up, moved down, got built, went quiet, or are new.

## Output

- Start with: **If you build one thing this week, build this:**
- 3 to 6 ideas, ranked by how buildable and how useful each is. No filler.
- If the last two days were quiet, say so in one line instead of making ideas up.
- End with the pages that seeded each idea.

## Schedule

Works best as a daily job at 7am. Ask before setting the schedule.

--- name: idea-miner description: Every morning, turn the last 24 to 48 hours of real activity into a short ranked list of things worth building this week, led by the single best one. --- # Idea Miner Each morning, read what actually happened in the last 24 to 48 hours and turn it into 3 to 6 concrete things the person could build: a new skill, a new agent, a workflow, a piece of code, or an upgrade to a skill they already have. New skills come first. ## 1. Gather - Meeting notes from the last 48 hours. - Pages in memory that are new or changed in the last 48 hours (people, projects, writing, notes). - Today's and yesterday's daily notes, if there are any. - The list of skills the person already has, so nothing gets pitched twice. ## 2. Look for repeated work Find the jobs that showed up more than once: manual, repetitive, or judgment work an AI could take over. For any theme that keeps coming up, search memory for more context. ## 3. For each idea, say - **The real job:** what happened in the last 48 hours that shows the need. Every idea must point to something real. Never invent one. - **What to build:** a skill, agent, workflow or code, with a one-line spec (name, when it runs, what it does). - **Who else needs it:** whether other people have the same problem. - **How it uses memory:** what it reads from and writes to memory. ## 4. Check it is not already built Compare every idea against the existing skills. If one already exists, drop it, or pitch it as a specific upgrade to that skill. ## 5. Track how ideas move Save each run as a dated page in memory (idea-miner/YYYY-MM-DD). Next run, compare against the last page: which ideas moved up, moved down, got built, went quiet, or are new. ## Output - Start with: **If you build one thing this week, build this:** - 3 to 6 ideas, ranked by how buildable and how useful each is. No filler. - If the last two days were quiet, say so in one line instead of making ideas up. - End with the pages that seeded each idea. ## Schedule Works best as a daily job at 7am. Ask before setting the schedule.