problem-to-solution

problem-to-solution is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Future-CX/AI-Architecture-Toolkit. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,771 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision brief that turns an unclear business problem into a short document comparing solution options and recommending a way forward.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to frame a problem, brainstorm and compare alternatives, prepare a recommendation, or write a decision paper for senior stakeholders.
Why use it?
It gives non-technical stakeholders a shared view of the problem, trade-offs, and decision needed. This helps them review choices and agree on next steps.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/future-cx/ai-architecture-toolkit/problem-to-solution
Any agent
npx skills add Future-CX/AI-Architecture-Toolkit --skill problem-to-solution
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Future-CX/AI-Architecture-Toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,771 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00062 $0.01771
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00886
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00354
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00177

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7e5b2ec86950, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

problem-to-solution 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 4d 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/problem-to-solution/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Problem To Solution

Quick Start

Use this skill to turn an ambiguous problem into a concise decision document for non-technical business stakeholders.

Store generated problem-to-solution briefs under the consuming repository's private lab root in problem-to-solutions/.

problem-to-solutions/<problem-slug>-problem-to-solution.md

Use templates/problem-to-solution-template.md as the output structure. Replace placeholders and drafting guidance with concrete content; do not leave unanswered sections unless the unknown is explicitly marked as TBD or an open question. Remove the ## Open Questions section when there are no open questions.

Problem-to-solution briefs are written for non-technical business stakeholders first. Architects and delivery teams should get enough context to act, but the opening sections must be easy for a business reader to scan, understand, and use in a decision meeting.

Do not write real-company decision context into this public toolkit repository.

Required Inputs

  • Problem statement
  • Decision needed
  • Decision owner or forum
  • Stakeholders and impacted groups
  • Business or architecture context
  • Constraints, assumptions, and non-goals
  • Evaluation criteria
  • Candidate solution options
  • Recommendation and rationale after solution exploration is complete
  • ADR link when the solution is decided

Workflow

  1. Clarify the problem, why it matters now, who needs to decide, and when a decision is needed.
  2. Ask for known constraints, non-goals, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder concerns when not already provided.
  3. Read related architecture documents when paths are provided.
  4. Validate terminology against <private-lab-root>/GLOSSARY.md when the brief uses domain-specific applications, capabilities, data objects, or jargon. Use ../ubiquitous-language/SKILL.md to clarify or update terminology before option brainstorming when important terms are missing, ambiguous, or overloaded.
  5. Use ../grill-me/SKILL.md to pressure-test the problem framing, assumptions, constraints, stakeholder tensions, and evaluation criteria before settling on solution options.
  6. Brainstorm 2-5 realistic solution options. Include a "do nothing" or "defer" option only when it is a plausible decision path.
  7. Evaluate each option against the same criteria so comparisons are fair and decision-ready.
  8. Write balanced pros and cons for each option. Avoid strawman alternatives.
  9. Before writing a recommendation, use ../grill-me/SKILL.md for a dedicated exploration review of all options, pros, cons, assumptions, missing alternatives, hidden constraints, and stakeholder trade-offs. Ask questions one at a time and wait for feedback before concluding the review.
  10. Revise the options, pros, cons, criteria, and open questions based on the grill-me session.
  11. Only after the grill-me exploration review is complete, recommend one option, or a staged combination, with clear rationale, trade-offs, and conditions for success.
  12. Create or update the problem-to-solution brief from templates/problem-to-solution-template.md. Preserve the two opening tables: the document metadata table first, followed by the Integration Overview table.
  13. Run the readability and glossary compliance gate before finishing:

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 4d ago First seen · 107 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 7e5b2ec86950

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problem-to-solution is a skill published in the GitHub repository Future-CX/AI-Architecture-Toolkit (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,771 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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