cc-thinking-skills

In the author's own words, from each skill's SKILL.md.

• thinking-bounded-rationality

  Use when search or investigation could run forever. Set an explicit good-enough threshold first, then stop at the first option that clears it.

  skills/thinking-bounded-rationality/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-circle-of-competence

  Use when a specific claim may lack grounding. Check evidence boundary, size wrongness cost, then answer, fetch, or abstain — never confabulate.

  skills/thinking-circle-of-competence/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-cynefin

  When the right response mode is unclear, classify the cause-effect domain first; decompose disorder.

  skills/thinking-cynefin/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-effectuation

  Under genuine uncertainty with no reliable forecast, inventory means, cap downside at affordable loss, act for commitments, and let goals emerge from controllable moves.

  skills/thinking-effectuation/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-first-principles

  When a constraint is treated as fixed, separate physics from convention, keep only independently supported primitives, and rebuild the simplest solution that satisfies real constraints.

  skills/thinking-first-principles/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-five-whys-plus

  When a fault is localized and the proximate cause is known but the systemic root is not, chain evidence-linked whys with a counterfactual stop and a countermeasure.

  skills/thinking-five-whys-plus/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-jobs-to-be-done

  Deciding what to build or why adoption fails. Recover the progress users hire a solution for under a circumstance, then rank by outcome and competing workarounds.

  skills/thinking-jobs-to-be-done/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-kepner-tregoe

  Use when a selective defect needs IS/IS-NOT difference analysis or a consequential option choice needs must/want weighting and adverse-consequence comparison.

  skills/thinking-kepner-tregoe/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-lindy-effect

  Use when longevity of a non-perishable option matters. Treat survival duration as a remaining-life prior, then check domain drift before favoring the proven.

  skills/thinking-lindy-effect/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-map-territory

  When a claim, doc, test, metric, or assumption conflicts with observed behavior, stop theorizing from the map and verify the live code or data; let territory overrule.

  skills/thinking-map-territory/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-margin-of-safety

  When provisioning, setting a limit, or committing an estimate under uncertainty, size a buffer to residual error and the cost of breach—not to the optimistic edge.

  skills/thinking-margin-of-safety/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-model-combination

  When one mental model leaves a material blind spot on a multi-domain or high-stakes problem, sequence complementary models with named roles and a conflict rule.

  skills/thinking-model-combination/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-model-router

  When unsure which thinking skill fits, map domain and problem type, then return NONE or one primary skill by default (at most three complementary).

  skills/thinking-model-router/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-ooda

  Use under time pressure when the situation is still changing and you must act before certainty — cycle Observe→Orient→Decide→Act on ~70% confidence, then re-observe.

  skills/thinking-ooda/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-opportunity-cost

  Before committing scarce time, people, or money, name the best forgone use of those resources and the value delta of the chosen path versus that alternative.

  skills/thinking-opportunity-cost/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-pre-mortem

  Before committing to a plan or launch, assume it already failed and reason backward through concrete causes — convert failure paths into mitigations, gates, and stop checks.

  skills/thinking-pre-mortem/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-probabilistic

  Use when forecasting, estimating, or sizing risk — anchor on base rates, give ranges, update prior→likelihood→posterior on evidence, and factor unmeasured quantities into order-of-magnitude bounds.

  skills/thinking-probabilistic/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-red-team

  For authorized security review of code, auth, or APIs you control, model the attacker, map the attack surface, and report only findings with a reproducible exploit path and verified mitigation.

  skills/thinking-red-team/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-reversibility

  Before heavy deliberation, classify the decision as cheap or costly to undo; decide two-way doors fast and stage one-way doors to preserve options.

  skills/thinking-reversibility/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-scientific-method

  When a symptom has several plausible causes, rank falsifiable hypotheses and run the cheapest discriminating observation first; prefer least-assumptive survivors only after evidence fit.

  skills/thinking-scientific-method/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-second-order

  When a change has effects past the immediate fix—incentives, scale, feedback—trace consequence chains with timing and probability before committing.

  skills/thinking-second-order/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-socratic

  When a request is vague, assumption-laden, or "obvious," ask the few load-bearing questions that expose hidden requirements before building or committing.

  skills/thinking-socratic/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-steel-manning

  Before rejecting a proposal or reflexively agreeing, build the strongest faithful opposing case, state agreement conditions, then update or reaffirm.

  skills/thinking-steel-manning/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-systems

  When behavior is emergent across components—fixes elsewhere break, loops/delays dominate—map boundary, stocks/flows, feedback, archetypes, then rank leverage.

  skills/thinking-systems/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-theory-of-constraints

  When throughput or latency is pipeline-limited, identify the single binding constraint and exploit, subordinate, elevate, then recheck—ignore non-constraints.

  skills/thinking-theory-of-constraints/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-thought-experiment

  When a real test is too rare, large, or irreversible, run a controlled counterfactual: isolate one variable, fix conditions, trace the mechanistic chain, and bound what the result implies.

  skills/thinking-thought-experiment/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-triz

  When two design requirements seem mutually exclusive, name the contradiction, separate conflicting states, then invent a concrete no-compromise resolution.

  skills/thinking-triz/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• thinking-via-negativa

  Use when the reflex is to add a feature, layer, or process. Prefer removing harmful or nonessential elements first, with an irreversibility guard before deletion.

  skills/thinking-via-negativa/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

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