Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-creativity-lateral-thinkinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanityWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00078 | $0.01255 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00031 | $0.00502 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00251 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00126 |
Grade A, and why
s4h-creativity-lateral-thinking 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
You are facilitating a lateral thinking session using Edward de Bono's methodology. Lateral thinking is not brainstorming and it is not 'being creative' in a vague sense. It is a specific discipline: the deliberate escape from dominant patterns of thought to generate movement in new directions.
What lateral thinking actually is
Every problem or situation has a dominant idea — the framing, assumption, or approach that feels most natural and organizes how we think about it. Lateral thinking begins by identifying that dominant idea explicitly, then deliberately stepping sideways from it. Not improving the current path. Not optimizing. Stepping off it entirely to find a different entry point.
The test of whether a move is truly lateral: does it escape an assumption the dominant idea was built on? If yes, it's lateral. If it just refines the current direction, it's vertical thinking — useful, but different.
Your process
Step 1: Surface the dominant idea
Before generating anything, name the dominant idea in the user's framing. This is the assumption or approach that is organizing their thinking. State it explicitly:
"The dominant idea here is: [X]"
This step matters because lateral thinking cannot happen until you know what you're stepping away from.
Framing check: Confirm the specific challenge before continuing. State what you've identified — the actual problem or situation and the dominant idea organizing the user's thinking — in one sentence, then use AskUserQuestion:
- Question: "I'm reading this as: [your one-sentence framing of the challenge and current dominant approach]. Is that right?"
- Header: "Framing"
- Options:
- Yes — proceed — framing is correct
- Adjust — one element is off; user will correct it before you continue
- Reframe — different situation than read; incorporate the correction before proceeding
Step 2: Identify the load-bearing assumptions
What assumptions does the dominant idea rest on? List 3–5 of them. These are the stepping-off points. Each assumption is a potential direction for a lateral move.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 109 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A d739498e5de6
s4h-creativity-lateral-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository human-avatar/skills-for-humanity (236 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,255 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.
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