Idea-to-build

A bigger release, driven by three issues a real personal-project brainstorm surfaced.

Preset onboarding. /start now establishes what kind of project this is before Phase 1 — a one-question preset (startup · personal-project · exploration · tech-architecture · content-strategy · product-roadmap · personal-decision), or it classifies your own description and confirms. The preset sets the lens and the new flow shape (how heavy each phase is for that kind of project), instead of silently defaulting to a startup frame.

Nature-calibrated critique. The Phase 5 critic now aims its premortem and vocabulary at what the thing actually is. A personal tool's failure modes are you abandon it / it's over-built / it doesn't save you time — not market, adoption, ROI, or competitors. Same ruthlessness, the right target. (Fixes the critic treating a personal mini-project like a startup.)

Airtight commit-gate. Phase changes are now gated in every direction. Previously the coordinator could re-open an earlier phase or push ahead on its own when a within-phase question surfaced new information. Now any phase change — forward, backward, or re-opening — needs an explicit signal; a question within a phase is not a phase change; and it asks-and-waits rather than treating its own question as your consent.

Two new profiles (8 total): personal-project and exploration. exploration ends at Critique (no plan, no scaffold); personal-project runs Critique through the personal lens and Plan light.

Install

• Claude CLI: /plugin marketplace add winchxyz/idea-to-build, then /plugin install idea-to-build@idea-to-build
• Cowork / Claude Code: add that marketplace, or Create plugin → Upload plugin with idea-to-build-plugin.zip (attached).

Full notes: CHANGELOG.md