use /skill-creator to build the following skill:
Name: davinci-method
Trigger: Manual only. Run this skill when I call it by name. Do not auto-activate based on the topic of conversation.
What it does:
Takes a problem or idea I'm stuck on and generates fresh solutions by forcing connections from unrelated fields, the way da Vinci pulled ideas from water, birds, and anatomy into his work. This is an idea generator, not an explainer. The goal is surprising, usable connections I wouldn't have reached on my own.
How it should behave:
1. Ask me for the problem in one line, plus what a good solution would let me do.
2. Read davinci-connections. md first. Then describe the problem in concrete, observed detail, like you're sketching it, before trying to solve it.
3. Pull analogies from at least 4 distant domains: nature, a different industry, a craft or sport, and a mechanical or physical system. One analogy each.
4. Force each analogy into a concrete idea for my problem. Spell out what it would actually look like, not just the metaphor.
5. Combine the 2 strongest into one buildable concept, then give me the next physical step to test it this week.
Create a separate reference file called davinci-connections. md with this content, and read it before running:
Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks show a single repeated habit: he treated every field as connected and borrowed patterns across them.
What he actually did. He studied the turbulence of flowing water and used it to draw the curls of hair. He studied the wings and flight of birds to design flying machines. He used his dissections of the human body to inform his art and his ideas about architecture and machines. He observed first, in obsessive detail, then connected what he saw in one domain to a problem in another.
The method, distilled:
1. Observe before solving. Describe the thing in front of you in concrete detail until you notice something you missed.
2. Reach far for analogies. The more distant the source field, the more original the connection. Nature is the richest source.
3. Make the analogy concrete. A metaphor isn't an idea until you say exactly how it would work in the real problem.
4. Combine and build. Merge the strongest connections into one thing you can actually make or test.
Principle. Originality is mostly range. The person who studies the most unrelated fields has the most raw material to connect. Force the distance, then make it concrete.