sixhats

sixhats is a skill for Claude Code from neurofoo/agent-skills. It costs 39 tokens per session (642 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision-making exercise that examines one topic through six viewpoints: facts, feelings, risks, benefits, creativity, and process.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for exploring decisions, collecting known facts and information gaps, identifying risks and benefits, generating ideas, and planning next steps.
Why use it?
It helps a group consider different kinds of information without turning every viewpoint into an argument against the others.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the creative-skills plugin — 3 skills, 8 commands shipped together

Good fit It is for exploring decisions, collecting known facts and information gaps, identifying risks and benefits, generating ideas, and planning next steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/neurofoo/agent-skills/sixhats
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 neurofoo/agent-skills --skill sixhats
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install creative-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 8 commands.

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 sixhats

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 642 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 $0.00039 $0.00642
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00321
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00064

Measured 8d ago against content hash 49139dff049c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sixhats 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.

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.

sixhats/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Six Thinking Hats Analysis

Explore a topic from all six perspectives—facts, feelings, caution, benefits, creativity, and process.

Instructions

Work through each hat sequentially, giving full attention to one perspective before moving to the next. This is parallel thinking, not debate.

Output Format

Topic: [What we're exploring]


White Hat: Facts and Information

What do we know? What data do we have?

Known Facts

  • [Fact 1]
  • [Fact 2]

Information Gaps

  • What don't we know? [Gap]
  • How could we find out? [Method]

Red Hat: Feelings and Intuition

How do we feel about this? What does gut instinct say?

Emotional Reactions

  • [Feeling 1]
  • [Feeling 2]

Intuitions

  • My gut says [intuition]

No justification needed—this hat is about feelings, not reasons.


Black Hat: Caution and Critical Thinking

What could go wrong? What are the risks and problems?

Risks

Risk Likelihood Severity
[risk] High/Med/Low High/Med/Low

Why It Might Fail

  • [Reason 1]
  • [Reason 2]

Yellow Hat: Benefits and Optimism

What's good about this? What value does it offer?

Benefits

Benefit Who Benefits Magnitude
[benefit] [stakeholder] High/Med/Low

Best Case Scenario If everything goes well: [description]


Green Hat: Creativity and Alternatives

What else is possible? What new ideas emerge?

Alternative Approaches

  • [Alternative 1]
  • [Alternative 2]

Wild Ideas (don't filter)

  • [Crazy idea 1]
  • [Crazy idea 2]

Blue Hat: Process and Meta-Thinking

What have we learned? What should we do next?

Summary of Perspectives

Hat Key Insight
White [main data point]
Red [main feeling]
Black [main concern]
Yellow [main benefit]
Green [best alternative]

Recommended Next Steps

  1. [Action 1]
  2. [Action 2]

Decision/Direction Based on all six perspectives:

[Recommendation or decision]

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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. 8d ago First seen · 118 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 49139dff049c

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sixhats is a skill published in the GitHub repository neurofoo/agent-skills (111 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 642 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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