think-complexity-domain-sort

think-complexity-domain-sort is a skill for Claude Code from product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills. It costs 124 tokens per session (1,609 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A way to sort a situation by how predictable its cause-and-effect relationships are: clear, complicated, complex, chaotic, or not yet understood.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose an initial response to problems such as routine work, expert analysis, changing social situations, emergencies, or unclear conditions.
Why use it?
It helps match the response to the situation instead of applying a fixed process everywhere. The method also requires a concrete next action and notes that its evidence is conceptual rather than proven.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the thinking-framework-skills plugin — 68 skills, 10 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose an initial response to problems such as routine work, expert analysis, changing social situations, emergencies, or unclear conditions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-complexity-domain-sort
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 product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills --skill think-complexity-domain-sort
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install thinking-framework-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 68 skills, 10 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,609 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 $0.00124 $0.01609
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.00805
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00322
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00161

Measured 10d ago against content hash 64580dbce757, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

think-complexity-domain-sort 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.

skills/think-complexity-domain-sort/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Complexity Domain Sort

The Complexity Domain Sort triages a situation by how knowable its causal structure is, then picks the response posture that fits: sense-categorize-respond for the clear, probe-sense-respond for the complex, and so on. It is descriptively named here; the framework it derives from is Cynefin, and its evidence is conceptual only. This skill runs the sort honestly. It leads with that caveat, then forces the one thing the bare label omits and that makes the sort worth running at all: a concrete next action tied to the domain, because saying "this is complex" is not a decision.

Before you run this: the evidence caveat

This sort is descriptively named; the framework it derives from is Cynefin, a trademark of The Cynefin Co. (Dave Snowden, 1999). Its evidence is tier C (conceptual): it is a coherent, widely taught sense-making heuristic, but no controlled study shows that classifying a problem this way improves decisions versus not classifying it. The 2021 PMC review applying it to internal-medicine diagnostic reasoning states the point plainly: the framework "is now widely used for teaching and as a simple heuristic; however, scientific proof of its validity has yet to be provided." The dominant failure mode is the cargo cult: stopping at the label ("ah, this is complex, we should probe") is satisfying to say and changes nothing. So the placement is a contested framing, not a found fact, and the deliverable is the next action it implies, not the bucket name.

When to Use

  • The user asks for this complexity sort (or Cynefin) by name and you should run it honestly rather than refuse.
  • A team is applying the wrong management style to the problem type (running an emergent initiative on a rigid best-practice plan, or smothering a routine task in deliberation) and naming that mismatch out loud would help.
  • As a front end to picking how to act, where the value is legitimizing safe-to-fail experiments in the complex domain and flagging the confusion trap, not the five-box picture.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. 10d ago First seen · 74 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A 64580dbce757

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think-complexity-domain-sort is a skill published in the GitHub repository product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills (15 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 1,609 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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