/wbIdea — Command Hub

/wbIdea is the idea pipeline engine. It captures speculative improvements — whether generated by AI from a package's context or auto-registered from a /wbVision session — scores them by impact, feasibility, and urgency, and maintains a tracked backlog in .wb/ideas/. When an idea matures through exploration and validation, it auto-promotes into an actionable plan task.

Ideas enter scored, not as free text: capture → score → promote or defer. /wbAudit --ideas feeds this pipeline; /wbIdea runs it.

🎯 Strategic Position

Ideas that live in chat history die. /wbIdea gives them a persistent, scored, lifecycle-tracked home. The pipeline is: dream (/wbVision) → capture (/wbIdea) → explore (/wbWork idea_*.md) → validate (/wbValid) → promote (auto-ingest into /wbPlan). Nothing gets lost between inspiration and execution.

• After an audit — route P3 findings to the idea pipeline via --ideas.
• After a vision session — auto-registers concepts as scored ideas.
• During planning — review the backlog and promote mature ideas.

🛠️ Operating Modes

Mode	Trigger	Output
Native	/wbIdea packages/wb-dataviewer	Scored idea backlog from package context
Vision intake	/wbVision packages/wb-core	Auto-registers 3+ ideas into the pipeline
Promotion	/wbIdea idea_*.md --id=4 --promote	Promotes ideas to active plan tasks
Lifecycle	--reject / --defer / --resume	Controls idea state transitions

✅ What a useful idea backlog contains

1. Scored ideas — each with a 1–10 score grounded in impact, feasibility, and urgency.
2. Source attribution — whether from /wbIdea, /wbVision, or manual entry.
3. Priority tiers (P1/P2/P3) — so promotion decisions are informed.
4. Time estimates — rough minutes to implement.
5. Lifecycle tracking — Done/Valid/Promoted status with verdict scores.

🚫 What it cannot do

Not this	Use instead
Execute ideas	/wbWork (on idea file)
Validate idea feasibility	/wbValid (on idea file)
Generate strategic proposals	/wbVision
Plan task execution	/wbPlan (auto-ingests promoted ideas)

The command captures and scores; it does not decide. Exploration and validation are separate steps in the lifecycle.

📚 Reading Order

1. ELI5 ⏳ — the one-paragraph mental model.
2. Practical ⏳ — step-by-step walkthrough on a real project.
3. Expert ⏳ — architecture, edge cases, and when NOT to use.
4. Examples — annotated idea pipeline transcripts (part 1 · 2).
5. Exhaustive simulation · Live demo.

🔗 Related

• wbIdea.md — the command reference this hub orients you around.
• /wbVision — strategic proposals that auto-register as ideas.
• /wbPlan — auto-ingests promoted ideas as tasks.
• /wbValid — validates explored ideas → promote/recommend/defer/reject.

Quick Reference

/wbIdea packages/wb-dataviewer                          # native idea generation
/wbIdea idea_wb-dataviewer_20260508.md --id=4 --promote # promote one idea to plan
/wbIdea idea_*.md --id=2 --reject                       # reject an idea
/wbIdea idea_*.md --id=3 --defer                        # defer to future
/wbAudit packages/ --ideas                              # route P3 audit findings INTO this pipeline

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