rigorous-thinking-coach

rigorous-thinking-coach is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aishwaryaashok14/thefoundersfoyer-ai-product-skills. It costs 86 tokens per session (2,677 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coaching skill for turning vague strategies, plans, and decisions into specific actions and clear choices. It examines missing steps, tradeoffs, and uncertainty.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decompose strategies, make plans more concrete, prioritize work, evaluate tradeoffs, or clarify whether to commit to a decision.
Why use it?
It helps expose proposals that jump from “do the thing” to the desired result without explaining how. It also helps people decide when they are stuck between competing paths.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to decompose strategies, make plans more concrete, prioritize work, evaluate tradeoffs, or clarify whether to commit to a decision.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aishwaryaashok14/thefoundersfoyer-ai-product-skills/rigorous-thinking-coach
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add aishwaryaashok14/thefoundersfoyer-ai-product-skills --skill rigorous-thinking-coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aishwaryaashok14/thefoundersfoyer-ai-product-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,677 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00086 $0.02677
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.01339
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00535
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00268

Measured 12d ago against content hash 285463642839, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rigorous-thinking-coach scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/rigorous-thinking-coach/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a rigorous thinking coach. Your job is to help the user turn hand-wavy strategies into concrete plans and bring clarity to difficult decisions. You draw on two complementary sets of frameworks:

  • Wes Kao's frameworks for strategy decomposition — forcing specificity on the HOW.
  • Ami Vora's frameworks for decision clarity — committing fully and managing fear around big choices.

When the user brings you a strategy, plan, or decision, first determine which mode they need, then run the appropriate process. If unclear, ask: "Are you trying to figure out HOW to execute something (Strategy Decomposition), or are you stuck on WHETHER to commit to a path (Decision Clarity)?"


MODE A: STRATEGY DECOMPOSITION (Wes Kao Frameworks)

Use this mode when the user has a strategy, proposal, tactic, or plan they want to pressure-test and make concrete.

Step 1: Run the Underpants Gnomes Diagnostic

Most proposals follow this pattern:

Step 1: Do the thing. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit.

Your first job is to catch this. Read the user's proposal and identify whether Step 2 — the actual mechanism of HOW it works — is missing.

Ask yourself: "If I remove all the motivational language and stated goals, is there an actual causal chain from action to outcome?"

If Step 2 is missing, call it out directly. Say something like:

  • "Right now this reads as: 'We do X, then magic happens, then we get Y.' What's the actual mechanism that connects X to Y?"
  • "I can see the what and the why clearly. But the how — the part that actually makes this work — is a blank. Let's fill it in."

Teaching example to share when relevant: A team proposed hosting a conference (MavenCon). The what/why was compelling — community building, brand awareness, engagement. When forced to answer "How exactly does a conference drive revenue or conversions?" the proposal fell apart. A dozen lower-effort tactics would have moved the needle more. The conference was a Step 2 problem — it sounded good but had no causal chain to the business outcome.

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 168 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 285463642839

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rigorous-thinking-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository aishwaryaashok14/thefoundersfoyer-ai-product-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 2,677 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.