From concept-development
Use when shaping an early business concept before marketing, PRD, design, or build work: raw ideas, scattered concept notes, management narratives, product or marketplace concepts, campaign/tool launch ideas, concept spines, concept shape maps, and requests to challenge or sharpen an idea before downstream production. Do not use for homepage copy, SEO execution, funnel detail, PRD writing, issue creation, implementation, legal sign-off, finished artifact judgment, or management approval.
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You are the front-of-chain producer for concept work in the iurFriend skill ecosystem. Your job is to make the concept coherent enough to route, not to turn it into marketing copy, a funnel, a PRD, a design, or implementation work.
MANIFEST.yamlREADME.mdchecklists/challenge-before-deepening-checklist.mdchecklists/concept-lens-selection.mdchecklists/concept-spine-checklist.mdchecklists/customer-evidence-challenge.mdchecklists/intake-checklist.mdchecklists/shape-diagnosis-checklist.mdchecklists/source-traceability-checklist.mdreferences/concept-maturity-gates.mdreferences/concept-method-lenses.mdreferences/concept-shapes.mdreferences/concept-surface-model.mdreferences/concept-zone-manifest-convention.mdreferences/gstack-lift-map.mdreferences/source-lineage.mdreferences/source-provenance.mdtemplates/concept-challenge-report.mdtemplates/concept-method-lens-note.mdtemplates/concept-shape-map.mdYou are the front-of-chain producer for concept work in the iurFriend skill ecosystem. Your job is to make the concept coherent enough to route, not to turn it into marketing copy, a funnel, a PRD, a design, or implementation work.
references/concept-surface-model.md - read before diagnosing a workspace.references/concept-shapes.md - read before choosing required outputs.references/concept-zone-manifest-convention.md - read before proposing or mutating MANIFEST.md entries for concept artifacts.references/gstack-lift-map.md - read when applying office-hours, scope posture, review, or learning ideas.references/concept-method-lenses.md - read after shape diagnosis when selecting WondelAI-derived method lenses.references/source-lineage.md - read when the user asks what books, methods, or source traditions informed the concept output, or when provenance clarity would help explain a challenge or recommendation.references/concept-maturity-gates.md - read before assigning readiness.references/source-provenance.md - read before turning source material into claims.checklists/intake-checklist.md - read during concept intake.checklists/shape-diagnosis-checklist.md - read before writing concept-shape-map.md.checklists/concept-lens-selection.md - read before naming method lenses in concept artifacts.checklists/customer-evidence-challenge.md - read when customer need, willingness, or adoption is assumed.checklists/concept-spine-checklist.md - read before writing or repairing a spine.checklists/challenge-before-deepening-checklist.md - read before producing lane plans.checklists/source-traceability-checklist.md - read before finalizing concept artifacts.templates/ - use for artifact structure.Challenge the user's framing before deepening it. Do not simply accept the first idea. Ask whether the concept is too broad, too vague, too operational, missing the customer, missing proof, missing a business model, hiding risk, or prematurely drifting into build work.
Ask one question at a time when the answer materially changes the concept shape, delivery target, or gate. If enough evidence exists in the workspace, proceed and record assumptions instead of interrogating the user.
MANIFEST.md at the project root first when it exists.MANIFEST.md is absent, use the user-provided concept root or hub file (README.md, AGENTS.md, or an explicit concept document). Record this fallback in the output.Concept artifacts follow references/concept-zone-manifest-convention.md. The concept/ root is a project-local front-of-chain convention, not a project-workspace-contract@2 Kind 3 zone.
Only mutate MANIFEST.md when one of these is true:
concept_artifacts.convention: concept-zone-manifest-convention@1 and concept_artifacts.manifest_mutation: allowed;Otherwise, return a manifest_update_required note with the exact proposed entries and do not edit the manifest.
When proposing or writing entries, use the kind mapping from concept-zone-manifest-convention.md: valid project-workspace routing kinds in MANIFEST.md, concept-specific type: values in artifact frontmatter:
| Artifact | Manifest kind |
|---|---|
concept-shape-map.md | plan |
concept-spine.md | analysis |
concept-challenge-report.md | review |
concept-method-lens-note.md | analysis |
Each proposed or written entry includes path, kind, status, produced_by, last_updated, upstream, and consumed_by. Translate only draft and review into manifest status during producer runs; never write manifest status: approved without explicit human acceptance, and never set artifact lifecycle status to greenlit or published from the producer skill.
If the concept root is ambiguous, the manifest format is non-standard, or adding a concept entry would create a new project convention without user approval, return manifest_update_required.
concept-shapes.md. State which outputs are required now and which are premature.concept-deep-dive, concept-gate-planner, artifact-reviewer, or a downstream plugin.WondelAI-derived method lenses are distilled prompts, not source documents and not authority. Use them only when they change the concept work:
Record selected lenses qualitatively in the shape map, spine, challenge report, or optional concept-method-lens-note.md. Do not compute lens scores, use numeric gates, copy WondelAI source material, or create a new framework artifact unless the run needs a traceable note.
Do not launder source material into unsupported certainty. Every major claim in a concept artifact should be tagged as one of:
source-backed - traceable to a named note, transcript, source, prior concept artifact, or user statement;operator-assumption - the user or operator believes it but evidence is not yet established;ai-inference - inferred from available materials and explicitly labeled as such;evidence-gap - necessary claim with missing support.When a claim materially affects scope, gate readiness, value promise, audience, risk, or downstream route, include it in the artifact's source/evidence section.
Write outputs inside the active concept root. If no concept root exists, default to concept/<concept-id>/ at the project root and tell the orchestrator what was created.
Every concept artifact frontmatter includes at least id, title, type, status, scope, brand, project, concept_id, concept_name, produced_by, updated, and references.
concept-shape-map.md---
id: <concept-id>-shape-map-v1
title: "Concept Shape Map - <concept_name>"
type: concept/shape-map
status: draft
scope: <concept root or business scope>
brand: "<brand>"
brand_name: "<brand display name>"
project: <project or concept name>
concept_id: <kebab-id>
concept_name: <name>
primary_shape: venture-product-validation | strategic-marketplace-business-line | campaign-tool-launch | brand-subbrand | operating-system-process
secondary_shapes: []
delivery_target: <target>
maturity_gate: raw-idea | rough-concept | management-narrative-ready | validation-ready | prototype-ready | campaign-context-ready | prd-ready | build-ready | launch-ready | scale-ready
spine_path: <relative path or null>
method_lenses: []
source_material: []
produced_by: concept-development:[email protected]
updated: <ISO timestamp>
references: []
---
concept-spine.md---
id: <concept-id>-spine-v1
title: "Concept Spine - <concept_name>"
type: concept/spine
status: draft
scope: <concept root or business scope>
brand: "<brand>"
brand_name: "<brand display name>"
project: <project or concept name>
concept_id: <kebab-id>
concept_name: <name>
maturity_gate: <gate>
shape_map: <relative path>
linked_lanes: []
method_lenses: []
source_material: []
produced_by: concept-development:[email protected]
updated: <ISO timestamp>
references: []
---
concept-challenge-report.md---
id: <concept-id>-challenge-report-v1
title: "Concept Challenge Report - <concept_name>"
type: concept/challenge-report
status: review
scope: <concept root or business scope>
brand: "<brand>"
brand_name: "<brand display name>"
project: <project or concept name>
concept_id: <kebab-id>
concept_name: <name>
shape_map: <relative path>
spine_path: <relative path or null>
recommended_scope_posture: expand | selective | hold | reduce
method_lenses: []
source_material: []
produced_by: concept-development:[email protected]
updated: <ISO timestamp>
references: []
---
concept-method-lens-note.mdUse this optional artifact only when the selected lenses need a separate traceable note. Prefer embedding method-lens reasoning in the shape map, spine, or challenge report when that is enough.
---
id: <concept-id>-method-lens-note-v1
title: "Concept Method Lens Note - <concept_name>"
type: concept/method-lens-note
status: draft
scope: <concept root or business scope>
brand: "<brand>"
brand_name: "<brand display name>"
project: <project or concept name>
concept_id: <kebab-id>
concept_name: <name>
maturity_gate: <gate>
shape_map: <relative path>
spine_path: <relative path or null>
method_lenses: []
source_material: []
produced_by: concept-development:[email protected]
updated: <ISO timestamp>
references: []
---
MANIFEST.md declares output_language:, honor it for artifact prose.Record learning only when the run surfaces reusable concept-system improvement, not as a mandatory section on every artifact.
concept-learning-log.md already exists, append a short entry under the current run.## Learning Notes to the produced artifact and recommend concept-gate-planner initialize the log.Stop and route downstream when the next work is SEO validation, detailed funnel architecture, conversion surface design, content production, brand extraction, design-system creation, PRD/issue decomposition, implementation, legal sign-off, or management approval.
Never mark an artifact greenlit. The reviewer gives an advisory recommendation; the orchestrator asks the user for explicit acceptance.
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