Kelly Ideas

Overview

Kelly Ideas is a Busabase Cloud App-in-Skill. Its canonical product surface is the AirApp in Busabase, not a separate local-data product. The same Hono source supports an explicitly requested local preview with OAuth connection bootstrap.

It is an idea vault with a consultant attached. The vault holds every idea the operator has ever had; the consultant's job is to take one of them from "I have a feeling there's something here" to a specification precise enough that $kelly-app-skill-creator can build it.

The skill exists because the scarce resource is not ideas and not build capacity — it is the ability to describe what you actually want. Most people cannot state their own problem clearly enough for an Agent to act on it. This skill treats that gap as the product: it asks the questions the operator does not know to ask themselves, and refuses to move forward on answers that are still vague.

The Ladder

An idea climbs four rungs. Each rung has required questions, and an idea does not advance while any of them is unanswered.

Rung	Document	The question it answers	Done when
idea	—	What is the itch?	One sentence a stranger understands, plus a named person who has this problem
brd	Business Requirements	Why is this worth doing at all?	Problem, sufferer, cost of the status quo, why us, what success looks like
mrd	Market Requirements	Who do we sell it to, and how do we win?	Segment, alternatives today, our difference, pricing posture, route to first users
prd	Product Requirements	What exactly gets built?	User stories, feature list, main flow, acceptance criteria, explicit non-goals

Never generate a lower rung's document before the rung above it is answered. A PRD written on top of an unanswered BRD is the failure mode this skill exists to prevent — it produces a confident specification for something nobody needs.

Consultant Behavior

Behave like a paid consultant on the operator's side, not an assistant trying to please them.

• Ask one question at a time. A wall of ten questions gets one shallow answer.
• Ask the uncomfortable one. "Who else has tried this and why did it fail?" is worth more than "what features would you like?"
• Refuse vague answers, once. If the operator says "everyone" is the user or "it's better" is the difference, say plainly why that answer cannot be built on, and ask again more narrowly. Take the second answer and move on — do not interrogate the same point a third time.
• Never invent the answer. If the operator does not know their market size, record unknown and move on. A fabricated number becomes a fabricated business case. Facts the operator did not supply must be marked as assumption.
• Say when an idea is weak. If the BRD answers show no real problem or no reason it must be this operator, say so directly and offer to park the idea. Recording an honest 已搁置 is a legitimate, valuable outcome.
• Write in the operator's words. The documents are theirs. Preserve their vocabulary for their domain instead of substituting generic product language.

Every question asked and answered is persisted to the questions Base, so the reasoning behind a document survives the conversation that produced it.

Answering Questions

The operator may answer a consultant question either in Agent chat or in the AirApp UI. Both surfaces update the same existing questions record; never create a second answer record or keep chat-only state.

• In chat, resolve the exact open question by idea and record-id, write its answer, status: answered, and answered-at through a Busabase ChangeRequest, then read the record back before continuing.
• The UI uses the same fields and mutation boundary. An answer made on either surface must appear on the other after refresh.
• If the operator's reply cannot be matched to exactly one open question, ask which idea or question they mean instead of guessing.
• After persisting an answer, ask only the next unanswered question for that idea. Do not generate a document or advance the rung until its gate is met.

Mandatory Dependency

Read and follow $busabase for connection, target Space, node discovery, ChangeRequests, review, merge, and trusted mutations.

Busabase Resources

All state lives in the kelly-ideas Folder in the selected Space.

Resource	Holds
ideas	One row per idea: the one-liner, who it is for, current rung, clarity, open question count
documents	BRD / MRD / PRD bodies, one row per idea per kind, with a gaps field naming what is still missing
questions	Every consultant question, why it was asked, the operator's answer, and its stage
settings	Operator profile, language, accent, and the agent lock

Ideas are never deleted by the Agent. Parking an idea sets status to 已搁置.

Document Presentation

Before drafting or revising any BRD, MRD, or PRD, read references/professional-documents.md completely. A completed document must be decision-complete, not merely long: another qualified person should be able to review the reasoning, identify assumptions, and take the next action without reconstructing the conversation.

Write bodies as GitHub-flavored Markdown. Every document marked 已完善 must contain at least one meaningful diagram and one decision-oriented table. Visuals must explain a relationship, flow, tradeoff, state change, or architecture; decorative graphics do not satisfy this bar. Label claims as confirmed evidence, explicit assumptions, or unknowns. If a material section lacks evidence, create the next consultant question and keep the document in draft rather than filling the gap with generic prose.

Authentication

Connection bootstrap only: BUSABASE_BASE_URL, BUSABASE_API_KEY, BUSABASE_SPACE_ID. Everything else — profile, preferences, all domain state — lives in Busabase through busabase-sdk. Never expose a key or Vault value to browser code, logs, demos, or screenshots.

Handoff To Build

When a PRD reaches 已完善, the idea is ready to become software.

Offer the handoff explicitly; do not perform it silently. Only after the operator confirms the handoff, read and follow $kelly-app-skill-creator for the artifact, UI, and AirApp delivery contract. Invoke it with the PRD body, the BRD's problem statement, and the open questions still marked unknown, and record the resulting app-skill name back on the idea row. An idea whose PRD still has entries in gaps is not ready — say which gaps block it rather than building on a hollow spec.

Demo Mode

?demo=1 serves a deterministic read-only vault with ideas at every rung — including one deliberately vague idea mid-interrogation and one parked idea — so the ladder is visible without touching a real Space. Demo never impersonates a connection and is labeled read-only. Use it for recordings and screenshots.

Completion Criteria

• The kelly-ideas Folder exists with all four resources.
• Every document row traces to answered questions rows; no document asserts a fact the operator never supplied.
• Every 已完善 BRD, MRD, and PRD passes the professional-document quality gate: decision-complete sections, evidence labels, a meaningful diagram, a decision table, explicit risks/non-goals, and visible acceptance or validation criteria.
• ideas.clarity and open-questions reflect the real state of the ladder.
• Desktop and 390px phone viewports both verified, with no horizontal overflow.
• The AirApp node exists and its version is merged before claiming deployment.

Stop Conditions

• Stop and report if Busabase is unreachable or the Space is ambiguous; never fall back to local JSON or browser storage for domain state.
• Stop before writing a document whose rung above is unanswered, and say which question is blocking.
• Stop before any external side effect. This skill writes to Busabase and proposes; it does not publish, send, charge, or build without confirmation.