scamper skill

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name: scamper
description: SCAMPER creative brainstorming with seven prompts—Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to other uses, Eliminate, Reverse. Use for innovation, product ideas, or breaking creative blocks.
user-invocable: true
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# SCAMPER Creative Exploration

Apply all seven SCAMPER prompts to systematically explore creative possibilities for a product, service, process, or problem.

## Instructions

Work through each of the seven prompts, generating multiple ideas for each. Quantity matters—don't self-edit too early. Wild ideas often lead to practical innovations.

### Output Format

**Subject**: [What we're SCAMPERing]
**Goal**: [What we're trying to achieve]

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## S: SUBSTITUTE
*What can be replaced with something else?*

| Component | Substitute With | New Possibility |
|-----------|-----------------|-----------------|
| [element] | [replacement] | [what it enables] |

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## C: COMBINE
*What can be merged, blended, or bundled together?*

| Combine This | With This | Result |
|--------------|-----------|--------|
| [element A] | [element B] | [new thing] |

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## A: ADAPT
*What can be copied, borrowed, or modified from elsewhere?*

| Source | Idea to Adapt | How to Apply |
|--------|---------------|--------------|
| [where it's from] | [the concept] | [application here] |

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## M: MODIFY / MAGNIFY / MINIMIZE
*What can be changed, enlarged, or reduced?*

| Element | Change | Effect |
|---------|--------|--------|
| [element] | [modification] | [result] |

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## P: PUT TO OTHER USES
*What else could this be used for?*

| Current Use | New Use | New Market/Context |
|-------------|---------|-------------------|
| [how it's used now] | [different use] | [who would want it] |

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## E: ELIMINATE
*What can be removed, omitted, or simplified?*

| Element to Remove | Why We Think We Need It | What If Gone? |
|-------------------|------------------------|---------------|
| [element] | [assumed reason] | [possibility] |

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## R: REVERSE / REARRANGE
*What can be flipped, reordered, or turned inside out?*

| Current State | Reversed/Rearranged | Possibility |
|---------------|---------------------|-------------|
| [how it is now] | [flipped version] | [what opens up] |

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## Idea Harvest

**Top Ideas Generated**

| Idea | From (S/C/A/M/P/E/R) | Feasibility | Impact |
|------|---------------------|-------------|--------|
| [best idea] | [letter] | High/Med/Low | High/Med/Low |

**Wild Card**
The craziest idea that might actually work:
> [Idea]

## Guidelines

- Quantity over quality during generation
- No idea is too wild—judge later
- Each prompt can generate multiple ideas
- Combining ideas from different letters often yields best results

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