constructive-thinking

constructive-thinking is a skill for Claude Code from johnqtcg/awesome-skills. It costs 170 tokens per session (3,420 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for turning scattered facts and opinions into a short brief for a senior leader.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for technical decisions, proposals, status updates, investigation summaries, presentations, and executive summaries.
Why use it?
It helps readers understand the situation, main issue, key points, recommendation, and reasoning within a few minutes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for technical decisions, proposals, status updates, investigation summaries, presentations, and executive summaries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/johnqtcg/awesome-skills/constructive-thinking
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 johnqtcg/awesome-skills --skill constructive-thinking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/johnqtcg/awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for constructive-thinking

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/johnqtcg/awesome-skills/constructive-thinking"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/johnqtcg/awesome-skills/constructive-thinking.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 170 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,420 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00170 $0.03420
Opus 5 $0.00085 $0.01710
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00684
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00342

Measured 8d ago against content hash 36e329851967, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

constructive-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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/run_regression.sh, scripts/tests/test_skill_contract.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.

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/constructive-thinking/SKILL.md · 284 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 284 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

constructive-thinking

Turn messy thinking into a leader-ready structure. The skill teaches a method, not a writing template — the method compresses chaos into a five-element brief: Frame → Crux → Nodes → Tilt → Reasoning.

A senior leader does not have thirty minutes to absorb your story. They need you to put the structure on the table in three. This skill is the thinking discipline that makes that possible.


When to Use

Use this skill when the user is about to output something to an audience whose time is more valuable than their patience, and the raw material in their head is unstructured:

  • Briefing a senior leader on a technical decision or status
  • Pitching a proposal (RFC, ADR, project plan) and needs the one-page summary to land
  • Reporting up after an investigation (not the formal postmortem — the verbal brief)
  • Preparing slides or talk track for a presentation
  • Summarizing a long thread / Slack / email storm for someone who only has 3 minutes
  • Drafting an executive summary or TL;DR for any longer artifact
  • Cross-functional update where the audience does not share your context

Trigger phrases observed in practice (CN + EN):

"向领导汇报", "整理思路", "做技术方案的 presentation", "做个 one-pager", "report up", "brief the boss", "summarize for leadership", "executive briefing", "TL;DR", "the main point"

When NOT to Use

Route to a different skill when:

Situation Use this instead
Writing the final polished document (RFC, runbook, API doc) tech-doc-writer
Decomposing a feature into implementation steps writing-plans
Conducting root cause analysis on a specific incident incident-postmortem
Aggregating research with sources and citations deep-research
Formatting a GitHub PR description create-pr / commit
User wants to brainstorm freely — explore, not compress (no skill — chat)

A useful test: if the user is going to write something next, use tech-doc-writer. If they are going to speak to a human next, use this skill. If they are going to build something next, use writing-plans.

Read the full file on GitHub · 284 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 8d ago First seen · 284 lines · 170 tokens per session scan A 36e329851967

Subscribe to this mod's changes

constructive-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository johnqtcg/awesome-skills (30 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 170 tokens to every session and 3,420 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-30.

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