think-better: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/problem-solving-pro/SKILL.md

problem-solving-pro is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HoangTheQuyen/think-better. It costs 123 tokens per session (2,587 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A structured toolkit for finding the cause of difficult problems by breaking them down, testing possible explanations, and choosing actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for debugging, diagnosis, root-cause analysis, complex decisions, and problems where the right approach is unclear.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with a repeatable way to understand what is wrong and decide what to do next.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is HoangTheQuyen/think-better's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on think-better itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything think-better configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to HoangTheQuyen/think-better. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HoangTheQuyen/think-better/main/.agents/skills/problem-solving-pro/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HoangTheQuyen/think-better

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 123 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,587 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00123 $0.02587
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.01293
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00517
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00259

Measured 9d ago against content hash 334524534519, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

problem-solving-pro scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/advisor.py, scripts/core.py, scripts/search.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo apt update && sudo apt install python3
.agents/skills/problem-solving-pro/SKILL.md · 246 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 246 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Goal

Help users solve complex problems systematically using proven frameworks — turning vague issues into structured analyses with actionable recommendations.

problem-solving-pro

Comprehensive structured problem-solving framework for tackling any complex challenge. Contains a 7-step methodology, 15 decomposition frameworks, 8 prioritization techniques, 12 analysis tools, 12 cognitive biases with debiasing strategies, 10 communication patterns, 12 mental models, and 10 team dynamics patterns. Searchable database with reasoning-based recommendations that adapts to your specific problem type.

Prerequisites

IMPORTANT: Detect the correct Python command first. Some systems use python3, others use python. Run:

python3 --version 2>/dev/null || python --version

Use whichever command succeeds (python3 or python) for ALL script calls below. If the system only has python (common on Windows), substitute python everywhere you see python3 in this document.

If Python is not installed at all, install it based on user's OS:

macOS:

brew install python3

Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install python3

Windows:

winget install Python.Python.3.12

Note: On Windows, Python 3 is typically available as python (not python3).


How to Use This Workflow

When user requests problem-solving help (analyze, solve, diagnose, decide, structure, decompose, plan, strategy, recommendation), follow this workflow:

Step 1: Understand the Problem

Extract key information from user's problem description:

  • Problem type: Business performance, market entry, organizational change, product, cost reduction, innovation, crisis, data/analytics, partnership/M&A, policy
  • Complexity: Well-structured, ill-structured, wicked
  • Keywords: revenue, growth, decline, entry, change, innovation, cost, crisis, etc.
  • Context: Industry, scale, time pressure, stakeholder dynamics

Read the full file on GitHub · 246 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 246 lines · 123 tokens per session scan B 334524534519

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problem-solving-pro is a skill published in the GitHub repository HoangTheQuyen/think-better (119 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 2,587 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.