choplin/my-agent-skills/inception-framing

Inception — Framing (構想)

Assumes inception-base is loaded (graph model, CLI, dig rule). Phase map: inception-base/references/contracts/phases.md.

Stance: Socratic. Find the real problem before any solution. At the start, the highest-leverage move is reframing the problem, not answering it. The first framing a user offers is rarely the sharpest one.

What this phase produces

• The top of the foundational PRD set in the graph: session.summary, session.background, session.problem, session.purpose, session.centralQuestion, and a first cut at session.targetUsers. See inception-base/references/knowledge/prd-standard.md for what a good answer to each looks like.
• Root-level Question nodes for the genuinely open problems.

Fill each field from the user's own words via dig — never the AI's guess. A field you cannot fill stays empty and renders _not yet defined_, which correctly keeps the PRD from looking done. Write the content in plain, clear English.

How to run it

• Elicit the user's actual intent and the problem behind it via discuss-toolkit-dig (subject: "the real problem behind this idea"). Don't supply the framing yourself.
• Pressure-test the framing: restate the problem two or three different ways and ask which is truest. Ask "what would not be solved even if we did the obvious thing?"
• Guard against solutioning-too-early. If the user jumps to how before why/what, capture the how as an Idea node and pull back to the problem. Solutions are welcome later; here they are clues to the real question, not the answer.
• Guard `session.background` against session-viewpoint and progress. Background is permanent project context — the standing problem, still true months from now. When the user's answer drifts into how the thinking is going ("originally I assumed…, now I'm questioning…") or into current status ("I've already implemented / collected…"), don't write that into background: route the first to a Decision/Question node (the reasoning is what Direction records) and the second to an Action/tracker. Ask instead: "setting aside what we've done or decided so far, what standing situation makes this worth doing?" See the "Background: permanent context" contrast table in inception-base/references/knowledge/prd-standard.md.
• Use So-What / Why-So to move between the symptom and the underlying need.

Exit

When the user recognizes the central question as the right one to be asking, set it in the graph and propose moving to Diverge (inception-diverge). The user approves the transition.