problem-solving

problem-solving is a skill for Claude Code from huuanh20/awesome-ai-agent-skills. It costs 26 tokens per session (564 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A collection of creative problem-solving methods, including metaphor-based thinking, reversing assumptions, pattern finding, and simplification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break through stuck points, test assumptions, spot patterns across fields, examine extreme cases, and simplify complex problems.
Why use it?
It provides a way to choose a thinking technique when ordinary debugging or design work has stalled.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to break through stuck points, test assumptions, spot patterns across fields, examine extreme cases, and simplify complex problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/huuanh20/awesome-ai-agent-skills/problem-solving
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.

Any agent
npx skills add huuanh20/awesome-ai-agent-skills --skill problem-solving
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/huuanh20/awesome-ai-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 564 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 $0.00026 $0.00564
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00282
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00056

Measured 10d ago against content hash edb1b52a9fad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

problem-solving 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 10d 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.

.agents/skills/problem-solving/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Problem-Solving Skills

A collection of techniques for breaking through stuck points and finding elegant solutions.

Available Sub-Skills

When Stuck (Dispatch)

Location: when-stuck/SKILL.md

Start here when stuck. Matches your stuck-type to the right technique. Quick dispatch table for routing to the appropriate sub-skill.

Collision-Zone Thinking

Location: collision-zone-thinking/SKILL.md

Force unrelated concepts together to discover emergent properties. "What if we treated X like Y?" Revolutionary insights come from deliberate metaphor-mixing.

Inversion Exercise

Location: inversion-exercise/SKILL.md

Flip every assumption and see what still works. "What if the opposite were true?" Exposes hidden constraints and alternative approaches.

Meta-Pattern Recognition

Location: meta-pattern-recognition/SKILL.md

Spot patterns appearing in 3+ domains to find universal principles. Extract abstract forms that apply across domains.

Scale Game

Location: scale-game/SKILL.md

Test at extremes (1000x bigger/smaller) to expose fundamental truths. What breaks? What survives? Extremes reveal what normal scales hide.

Simplification Cascades

Location: simplification-cascades/SKILL.md

Find one insight that eliminates multiple components. "If this is true, we don't need X, Y, or Z." Look for unifying principles.

When to Use

How You're Stuck Use This
Don't know which technique when-stuck
Need breakthrough innovation collision-zone-thinking
Forced by assumptions inversion-exercise
Same issue in different places meta-pattern-recognition
Unsure about production scale scale-game
Complexity spiraling simplification-cascades

Quick Reference

Conventional solutions inadequate?  → collision-zone-thinking
"This must be done this way"?       → inversion-exercise
Same pattern 3+ places?             → meta-pattern-recognition
Will it work at scale?              → scale-game
Same thing implemented 5+ ways?     → simplification-cascades

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 10d ago First seen · 70 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A edb1b52a9fad

Subscribe to this mod's changes

problem-solving is a skill published in the GitHub repository huuanh20/awesome-ai-agent-skills (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 564 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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