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.
npx skills add ngocsangyem/MeowKit --skill problem-solvinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ngocsangyem/MeowKitWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ngocsangyem/meowkit/problem-solving)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ngocsangyem/meowkit/problem-solving"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ngocsangyem/meowkit/problem-solving/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ngocsangyem/meowkit/problem-solving"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ngocsangyem/meowkit/problem-solving.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00102 | $0.01730 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00051 | $0.00865 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00020 | $0.00346 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00173 |
Grade A, and why
mk: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 9d 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 — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Problem-Solving — Strategic Unsticking
Seven techniques for non-debugging stuck-ness. Each targets a specific failure mode of default thinking.
When to Use
NOT this skill if: you want open solution exploration before any plan exists — use mk:brainstorming. NOT this skill if: you want to re-examine an existing output or verdict — use mk:elicit.
Match symptom to technique. Load the reference only after matching.
| Stuck symptom | Technique | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Same thing implemented 5+ ways, growing special cases | Simplification Cascades | references/simplification-cascades.md |
| Conventional solutions inadequate, need breakthrough | Collision-Zone Thinking | references/collision-zone-thinking.md |
| Same issue across domains, reinventing wheels | Meta-Pattern Recognition | references/meta-pattern-recognition.md |
| Solution feels forced, "must be done this way" | Inversion Exercise | references/inversion-exercise.md |
| "Should scale fine" — no idea where limits are | Scale Game | references/scale-game.md |
| Told it's "impossible" / reasoning by analogy | First Principles | references/first-principles.md |
| Bloated system, remove > add, simplify by subtraction | Via Negativa | references/via-negativa.md |
| Unsure which applies | Dispatch flowchart | references/when-stuck.md |
Do NOT use for
- Anything broken / needing a fix — use
mk:fix(top-level orchestrator; invokes scout + investigate + sequential-thinking, adds regression tests, writes to memory). - Pure diagnostic reasoning without fix intent — use
mk:sequential-thinkingdirectly (evidence-based hypothesis testing). - Trivial fixes — typo, rename, single-file change with obvious cause.
- Known-options trade-off — use
mk:party(multi-agent deliberation) ormk:brainstorming(solution alternatives).
What ships with it
9 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.
- references/attribution.md 3.4 KB
- references/collision-zone-thinking.md 3.2 KB
- references/first-principles.md 3.6 KB
- references/inversion-exercise.md 3.6 KB
- references/meta-pattern-recognition.md 3.4 KB
- references/scale-game.md 4.5 KB
- references/simplification-cascades.md 2.9 KB
- references/via-negativa.md 3.0 KB
- references/when-stuck.md 3.1 KB
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 164 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A a67571fd500f
mk:problem-solving is a skill published in the GitHub repository ngocsangyem/MeowKit (14 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 1,730 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.
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