critical thinking skills

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tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

When a fault is localized and the proximate cause is known but the systemic root is not, chain evidence-linked whys with a counterfactual stop and a countermeasure.

1.3k 25d ago A 41 tokens original MIT

tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

When unsure which thinking skill fits, map domain and problem type, then return NONE or one primary skill by default (at most three complementary).

1.3k 25d ago A 32 tokens original MIT

thinking-systems

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tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

When behavior is emergent across components—fixes elsewhere break, loops/delays dominate—map boundary, stocks/flows, feedback, archetypes, then rank leverage.

1.3k 25d ago A 39 tokens original MIT

thinking-partner

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mattnowdev/thinking-partner

Skill Claude CodeCodex

A deterministic thinking partner that challenges assumptions and applies mental models to sharpen decisions, solve problems, and think more clearly. Use this skill whenever a user says "help me think through X", "challenge my thinking", "what am I missing", "apply mental models to this", "play devil's advocate"…

186 5mo ago B 183 tokens original MIT

syzkillall/comprehensive-thinking-skill

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Use when Codex must make a high-quality judgment on any complex problem, not only technical problems. Trigger when a question has high complexity, uncertainty, cost of being wrong, long-term impact, value tradeoffs, possible structural causes, or when the user asks for 全面思考, 深度理解, 系统性分析, 帮我想清楚, 从根上看, 这件事到底怎么看, 方法论…

41 2mo ago A 173 tokens original Apache-2.0

roast-en

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sumleo/roast

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Deep thought roasting engine — progressively interrogates thinking to uncover fallacies, blind spots, hidden assumptions. Triggers: user says 'roast me'/'challenge my thinking'/'poke holes', describes idea with fuzzy logic, types /roast. All deep-thinking scenarios. Does NOT trigger on explicit execution-only or…

8 5mo ago A 70 tokens original MIT

roast-ja

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sumleo/roast

Skill Claude CodeCodex

A Japanese-language question-only tool for examining an idea through progressively deeper questions about its meaning, reasoning, assumptions, contradictions, and underlying motivation.

8 5mo ago A 117 tokens original MIT

roast

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sumleo/roast

Skill Claude CodeCodex

A Chinese-language question-only tool for examining an idea through progressively deeper questions about its meaning, reasoning, assumptions, contradictions, and underlying motivation.

8 5mo ago A 109 tokens original MIT

axiom

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zhangyanxs/axiom

Skill Claude CodeCodex

First-principles assumption auditor. Deconstructs any decision or belief into irreducible premises, classifies each assumption (fact / convention / belief / interest-driven), ranks them by fragility × impact, and rebuilds conclusions from verified ground truth. Bilingual: responds in the user's language (Chinese or…

5 4mo ago A 111 tokens original MIT

retflo

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retflo/retflo

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Use when engaging in political argumentation, countering capitalist/authoritarian/status-quo arguments, or when user needs substantive counterarguments on economics, authority, philosophy, history, rhetoric, technology, or social topics. Provides objection handling and delivery calibration. The framework argues from a…

5 19d ago A 73 tokens

wisdom-first

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seacen/wisdom-first

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Bring humanity's best thinking to bear BEFORE improvising an answer. When the user seeks counsel or takes on a substantive task that rewards real thinking, planning, or design — rather than a quick fact or a mechanical edit — this skill first reaches for the two or three most fitting proven frameworks or mental models…

4 1mo ago A 190 tokens original MIT

cogx-prd

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ArchSightLabs/archsight-cognition

Skill Claude CodeCodex

A guide for turning a product idea into a small product requirements document, or PRD. A PRD records who the product is for, what to build first, and how to test the idea.

3 3mo ago A 43 tokens original Apache-2.0

cogx-research-brief

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ArchSightLabs/archsight-cognition

Skill Claude CodeCodex

A research summary built from outside sources, such as official documents, papers, project repositories, company announcements, and reliable reporting. It records findings, source links, evidence strength, disagreements, and unknowns.

3 3mo ago A 45 tokens original Apache-2.0

cogx-research-plan

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ArchSightLabs/archsight-cognition

Skill Claude CodeCodex

A research-planning template for turning a question about a product, market, user, technology, organization, or knowledge topic into a testable plan. It organizes hypotheses, sources, interviews, validation steps, timing, and deliverables.

3 3mo ago A 40 tokens original Apache-2.0

cartesian

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askarzh/epistemator

Skill Claude CodeCodex

This skill should be used when the user asks to "decompose a problem", "apply Cartesian method", "break this down systematically", "reduce to first principles", "analyze from the ground up", "apply methodical doubt", or wants to process input through Cartesian Reductionism to decompose complex wholes into clear…

3 6mo ago A 70 tokens original MIT

doors

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askarzh/epistemator

Skill Claude CodeCodex

This skill should be used when the user asks to "classify a decision", "is this a one-way or two-way door", "apply the doors framework", "triage this decision", "how much thinking does this need", "should I decide fast or slow", "apply Bezos decision framework", "Type 1 or Type 2 decision", or wants to determine how…

3 6mo ago A 86 tokens original MIT

pirsig

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askarzh/epistemator

Skill Claude CodeCodex

This skill should be used when the user asks to "assess quality", "apply Pirsig's framework", "analyze through Metaphysics of Quality", "evaluate static vs dynamic quality", "examine value conflicts", "apply MoQ", or wants to process input through Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality to understand value, quality, and the…

3 6mo ago A 86 tokens original MIT

forensic-read

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3243dwon/clear-eye

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Read any document the way a detective reads a witness statement — surface what it is NOT saying. Unlike a summarizer (which tells you what a text says), this skill exposes the subtext: hedging and weasel words, conspicuous omissions, buried leads, frequency tells, tone shifts, and non-answers. Use it on earnings…

1 3mo ago A 170 tokens original MIT

pre-mortem

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3243dwon/clear-eye

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Find what will kill a plan before it's committed to — by assuming it already failed and working backwards to the causes. Based on Gary Klein's pre-mortem technique. Unlike generic "what are the risks?" brainstorming, this skill imagines a specific, vivid failure six months out, reasons back to the most likely causes…

1 3mo ago A 162 tokens original MIT

second-order

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3243dwon/clear-eye

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Reason past the obvious, first-order consequence to the second-, third-, and long-tail effects everyone else stops short of. Where most analysis says "X causes Y", this skill asks "and then what?" — mapping the cascade, surfacing the non-obvious winners and losers, the reflexive responses, and the effects that only…

1 3mo ago A 157 tokens original MIT

devils-advocate

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Ludovic33Fr/product-ai-toolbox

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Utiliser avant toute décision importante pour faire jouer à l'IA le rôle d'un sceptique professionnel. Produit les trois meilleures raisons de ne pas faire ce qui est proposé, classées par force décroissante.

1 4mo ago A 48 tokens original MIT

gagharutyunyan1993/methodology-toolkit

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Apply structured decision-making and analytical frameworks to non-trivial problems. Use when the user asks for research, strategy, diagnosis, architecture decisions, prioritization, tradeoff analysis, root cause analysis, planning under uncertainty, problem-solving approach, "how should I approach X", or for…

1 3mo ago A 136 tokens original MIT

falsify

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263311487-ux/falsify

Skill Claude CodeCodexCursor

The scientific thinking protocol for AI agents. Use when facing complex, ambiguous, or high-stakes questions where guessing is costly — technical design decisions, architecture choices, debugging theories, data claims, security judgments, or any answer the agent is tempted to give confidently without evidence.…

0 2d ago A 130 tokens original MIT