six-thinking-hats

six-thinking-hats is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from martineserios/thebrana. It costs 91 tokens per session (4,529 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of six-thinking-hats, MIT.

A decision-making framework that examines an idea from six different viewpoints, such as facts, risks, benefits, and creativity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare products, offers, or strategies, plan decisions, run focused meetings, and find alternatives to a difficult problem.
Why use it?
It gives complex discussions a clear structure and helps prevent one-sided arguments or getting stuck overanalyzing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to compare products, offers, or strategies, plan decisions, run focused meetings, and find alternatives to a difficult problem.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/martineserios/thebrana/six-thinking-hats
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add martineserios/thebrana --skill six-thinking-hats
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/martineserios/thebrana

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,529 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00091 $0.04529
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.02264
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00906
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00453

Measured 11d ago against content hash 44c23b8f780a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

six-thinking-hats 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 11d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to six-thinking-hats — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/six-thinking-hats/SKILL.md · 689 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 689 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Six Thinking Hats

Apply Edward de Bono's parallel thinking framework (1985) to make better decisions by examining ideas from six distinct perspectives systematically.

When to Use This Skill

  • Making complex decisions that require multiple perspectives
  • Evaluating new products, offers, or strategies before launch
  • Breaking out of analysis paralysis with structured thinking
  • Running productive meetings where everyone thinks in the same direction
  • Balancing optimism with caution in strategic planning
  • Generating creative alternatives when stuck on a problem

Methodology Foundation

Aspect Details
Source Six Thinking Hats (1985)
Expert Edward de Bono - Coined "lateral thinking", advisor to IBM, Shell, NASA
Core Principle "Parallel thinking" - Instead of adversarial debate, everyone thinks in the same direction at the same time, switching perspectives together

What Claude Does vs What You Decide

Claude Does You Decide
Structures content frameworks Final messaging
Suggests persuasion techniques Brand voice
Creates draft variations Version selection
Identifies optimization opportunities Publication timing
Analyzes competitor approaches Strategic direction

What This Skill Does

This skill replaces chaotic brainstorming and unproductive debates with structured parallel thinking.

Instead of people defending positions and attacking others, everyone:

  1. Examines facts together (White)
  2. Shares feelings together (Red)
  3. Explores risks together (Black)
  4. Discovers benefits together (Yellow)
  5. Generates alternatives together (Green)
  6. Manages the process together (Blue)

The result: Faster decisions, better buy-in, more creative solutions, and reduced conflict.

How to Use

Analyze a Decision or Strategy

Apply the Six Thinking Hats to analyze:
[describe decision, product, strategy, or problem]

Go through each hat systematically and provide insights.

Read the full file on GitHub · 689 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. 11d ago First seen · 689 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 44c23b8f780a

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six-thinking-hats is a skill published in the GitHub repository martineserios/thebrana (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 4,529 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to six-thinking-hats, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.