idea-queue-capture_skill

Overview

This skill instantly captures user ideas into a shared work queue with intelligent grouping so teams can preserve context without interrupting current work. It focuses on speed: capture the user message verbatim, classify type, generate a concise title, and enqueue items for later validation. The capture step avoids planning, deduplication, or execution.

How this skill works

The skill parses user input to extract distinct ideas, detects lists and sentence boundaries, and preserves the full original message as the queue item description. It applies grouping rules to merge related ideas into one item or split unrelated ideas into multiple items, auto-detects a queue_item_type from keywords, generates a concise title (max 80 chars), and writes the item to the work_queue with metadata and timestamp. A short confirmation message returns counts, titles, types, and queue positions.

When to use it

• User provides a feature request, bug report, or improvement idea
• User mentions multiple related ideas that should be grouped
• You want to queue work without interrupting current tasks
• Quick capture is needed without planning or validation overhead
• User issues explicit capture commands like /capture-idea or /capture-request

Best practices

• Preserve user wording verbatim in the description to retain context for downstream validation
• Use clear separators (bullets, numbers, “Also…”, “Separately…”) when you intend separate queue items
• Keep capture fast—avoid adding acceptance criteria or execution steps at capture stage
• Warn users if messages include sensitive data and advise review before validation
• Prefer grouping when ideas affect the same component or have dependencies

Example use cases

• User reports two UI issues affecting the same panel; capture as one grouped queue item
• User verbally lists a bug, a feature, and a compliance analysis; capture as three separate items
• Use /capture-request to enqueue a specific suggestion from a chat thread
• Run /capture-multiple when you explicitly want each idea separated into its own queue item
• Call /list-queue to review pending positions after capture