Practical overview
When it fits
Use it when a coding-agent task is open-ended and exploring several distinct approaches could help, rather than when the task calls for a single direct answer.
Who it is for
- People using coding agents for design decisions, fuzzy debugging, naming, API design or strategy.
- Agent-skill developers exploring parallel ideation and thought-pruning approaches.
Documented uses
- Generate varied candidate approaches to an open-ended problem.
- Review candidate thoughts for quality and traps, then narrow and develop selected ideas.
Requirements & limits
The repository is public and MIT-licensed. It describes the skill as built on the Claude and Codex Agent SDKs.
- The method separates parallel idea generation from a later critic pass that scores, clusters and prunes candidates.
- Its use depends on a coding-agent workflow; it is not presented as a standalone application.
- The documented target use cases are open-ended reasoning tasks, including design, debugging, naming, API design and strategy.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Generate and render a set of divergent ideas with the TypeScript API
Run ADHD on a problem using parallel cognitive frames and render the resulting ideas as text.
Before you start
- Node.js 18 or later, as indicated by the repository README.
- The
adhd-agentpackage and an environment where its agent calls can run; installation and agent configuration details are not included in the provided documentation.
Steps
Import
runandrenderTextfromadhd-agent.Call
runwith a problem and options such asframesPerRunandtopK.Pass the result to
renderTextand print the returned text.
Expected outcome
Text output for the problem, with result fields including a shortlist, non-obvious pick, traps, deepened ideas, and clusters.
Guide limitations
- The README gives an API usage example but does not document package installation, agent credentials/configuration, or error handling here.
- The resulting ideas and scores are generated by agent calls; no particular quality or successful execution is guaranteed.
Compare options for AI coding assistance
These projects document a common task and share a project role. This is a source-based comparison, not an execution benchmark or a guarantee of interchangeability.
| Project | Documented purpose | Platform | Access and requirements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adhd | Generate varied candidate approaches to an open-ended problem. | The repository is public and MIT-licensed. It describes the skill as built on the Claude and Codex Agent SDKs. | |
| Spectra | Clarify requirements and compare approaches before proposing a change. | CLI, Desktop | The README lists a macOS and Windows desktop app, and a Homebrew installation for macOS. The CLI is published through npm and requires Node.js 22.14 or newer. |
| Skills — michaelshimeles | Install reusable task-specific skills into a coding-agent setup. | CLI | The repository README provides an npx installation command for most coding agents and describes automatic or explicit skill invocation in Claude Code. |
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 7 October 2026
- Original website title
- UditAkhourii/adhd · Official homepage title · retained in its source language

