ritual-meta-inspiration

Inspiration — Just-In-Time Idea Generation

When This Activates

The front door invokes this skill when the user's intent is ambiguous or empty — they want to build something on Ritual but don't know what. Instead of showing a static list of example prompts, this skill generates live, contextual ideas grounded in what's actually happening right now.

The Protocol

Step 1: Search for what's trending

Run three parallel web searches (use the web search tool). Vary the queries to avoid stale results:

1. "AI crypto applications [current month] [current year]" — what's being built right now
2. "on-chain AI agents use cases new" — emerging demand signals
3. "blockchain AI hackathon winners [current year]" — what's actually getting built and winning

Extract the top 5-8 themes from the combined results. Look for specific signals: project launches, hackathon trends, developer demand, user complaints about existing solutions.

If web search fails or returns no useful results: fall back to the static examples in the front door's welcome screen. Do not invent trends. Announce: "I couldn't fetch live trends, so here are proven ideas instead."

Step 2: Filter through Ritual's unique capabilities

For each theme, ask: can this be built better on Ritual than anywhere else? The filter is Ritual's enshrined precompiles — capabilities that exist on-chain natively, not through oracles or off-chain bridges:

Ritual Capability	Precompile	What It Enables That Other Chains Can't
On-chain LLM inference	0x0802	Smart contracts that think — no oracle, no off-chain API, verifiable by TEE
On-chain HTTP calls	0x0801	Contracts that fetch live data — prices, APIs, webhooks — inside TEE
Autonomous AI agents	0x0820, 0x080C	Multi-step reasoning agents that run on-chain; persistent memory (0x0820) or sovereign execution (0x080C)
On-chain image generation	0x0818	AI-generated visual assets with on-chain content hashes
On-chain audio generation	0x0819	AI-generated audio with verifiable provenance
On-chain video generation	0x081A	AI-generated video with verifiable provenance
Scheduled execution	Scheduler	Recurring autonomous operations without off-chain cron
Native passkey auth	0x0100	WebAuthn login without MetaMask — mainstream UX
Secret management	ECIES + ACL	Encrypted API keys and private outputs, on-chain delegation
Micropayments	X402	Pay-per-call API access from smart contracts

Hard filter: each surviving theme must map to a specific precompile address (0x08XX) or system contract. If you can't name the address, the idea doesn't exploit Ritual. Discard it. A generic DEX or lending protocol doesn't belong here — those work the same on any EVM chain.

Deduplication: discard any idea that overlaps with these static examples (already shown elsewhere):

• Chatbot / conversational AI (already a default example)
• Price oracle / ETH price feed (already a default example)
• NFT image generation from text (already a default example)
• Scheduled API calls (already a default example)
• AI research agent (already a default example)

The point of this skill is to show the user something they haven't already seen.

Step 3: Generate 4-5 concrete app ideas

For each surviving theme, generate a specific, buildable application idea. Each idea must include:

1. One-line pitch — what the user would say to the builder agent
2. Why now — one sentence connecting this idea to something specific from the search results (a trend, a launch, a gap in the market)
3. Why Ritual — which specific precompile address(es) make this impossible or impractical on other chains
4. Complexity — estimated number of precompiles involved (1 = simple, 3+ = ambitious)

Step 4: Present to the user

Format the ideas as a numbered list. The user picks one (or describes a variation), and the front door routes to the builder agent with that as the spec.

Presentation format:

Here are some ideas based on what's trending right now:

1. [One-line pitch]
   Trending because: [why now — one sentence from search results]
   Uses: [precompile addresses]. [Why only Ritual can do this.]

2. [One-line pitch]
   Trending because: [why now]
   Uses: [precompile addresses]. [Why only Ritual.]

3. ...

Pick a number, describe your own twist, or tell me something completely different.

Constraints

• Always search live. Never use cached or training-data ideas. The value of this skill is that it reflects what's happening NOW, not what was trending when the skills were written.
• Maximum 5 ideas. More than 5 creates decision paralysis.
• Minimum 3 ideas. Fewer than 3 doesn't give enough range.
• Each idea must be buildable in one session. Don't suggest "build a full autonomous hedge fund" — suggest "build a contract that uses an AI agent to research a token and publish a buy/sell signal."
• Vary the complexity. At least one simple idea (1 precompile), at least one ambitious idea (3+ precompiles). The user should see the range of what's possible.
• No generic blockchain apps. Every idea must require at least one Ritual-specific precompile. If it could be built on Ethereum with Chainlink, it doesn't belong here.
• Ground in the search results. Each idea should connect to something you found trending. Don't invent trends.