collaborative-thinking

collaborative-thinking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zts212653/clowder-ai. It costs 96 tokens per session (2,669 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured way to explore ideas alone or with several AI agents, compare viewpoints, and turn a discussion into a clear decision. It also records agreements, disagreements, and follow-up actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for brainstorming, architecture choices, process design, direction-setting, and summarising a discussion into a specification and action list.
Why use it?
It helps prevent vague brainstorming from becoming scattered conversation or an unclear plan. It also shows when using several agents is unnecessary for a small implementation task.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zts212653/clowder-ai/collaborative-thinking
Any agent
npx skills add zts212653/clowder-ai --skill collaborative-thinking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zts212653/clowder-ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,669 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00096 $0.02669
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01334
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00534
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00267

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0d00707fd376, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

collaborative-thinking 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 4d 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.

cat-cafe-skills/collaborative-thinking/SKILL.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Collaborative Thinking

三种思考模式:单人探索 / 多猫独立思考 / 讨论收敛沉淀。与 feat-lifecycle 讨论阶段的区别:feat-lifecycle 专用于 feat 采访和需求澄清;本 skill 是通用思考框架。

核心知识

模式 何时用 何时不用
A 单人探索 1:1 功能设计、想法 → spec 需要多视角的方向性决策
B 多猫思考 架构选型、流程设计、跨模型互补 实现细节、bug 定位(token 成本不值)
C 收敛沉淀 任何讨论产出了决策/规则/否决理由 纯问答(结论在 thread 里已够)、operator说"不用记"

Mode A: 单人探索 (Brainstorm)

目标:将模糊想法转化为可执行 spec,通过增量验证降低返工。

  1. 理解上下文:先读项目现状(文件、文档、近期 commits)。每次只问一个问题,优先多选题。
  2. 探索方案:提出 2-3 个备选 + tradeoffs,先说推荐和理由。YAGNI 无情剪枝——"以后可能需要"的功能先砍。
  3. 呈现设计:每次 200-300 字,每段后问"这个方向对吗?"。覆盖:架构 / 组件 / 数据流 / 错误处理 / 测试。
  4. 产出:设计文档写到 feature-specs/YYYY-MM-DD-{topic}-design.md,commit 后问"要开始实现了吗?"

Mode B: 多猫独立思考

何时启动 Mode B? 参见 ../.cat-cafe-shared-refs/shared-rules.md §13 元思考触发器 A-D。 调 cat_cafe_multi_mention 前必须带搜索证据(searchEvidenceRefs)。

⚠️ 成本警告:Swarm token 消耗是单猫 N 倍(N = 参与猫数)。实现细节不值得开 swarm。

6 阶段流程

Phase 1: 独立思考(并行,禁止互看)
Phase 2: 串行讨论(有分歧才触发,限 2-3 轮)
Phase 3: operator选扇入者
Phase 4: 扇入综合(会议纪要 + 行动项)
Phase 5: 其他猫审阅补充(纠正误读)
Phase 6: operator反馈 + 最终确认 → 进入 Mode C

Phase 1 独立性保护规则(最重要)

  • 禁止互看:每只猫独立完成,不预测他人观点
  • 防锚定:有背景材料时,先形成自己想法再参考
  • 展示推理链:"我为什么这么想",不只给结论
  • 标注不确定性:区分确信的结论和猜测

实现方式:routeParallel() 或operator分别 @ 各猫并强调"先独立思考"。

Phase 2 触发:各方基本一致 → 跳过;存在明显分歧 → 需要(限 2-3 轮);operator说"够了" → 跳过。

Phase 4 综合必须包含:各方观点摘要 / 共识区 / 分歧区(不要抹平!)/ 待决事项 / 行动项。

Open Questions 分类(必须拆开)

  • 技术 OQ:给猫猫解决的(实现细节、方案选型中可回滚的部分)
  • 价值 OQ:需要 operator 判断的 → 必须附 Decision Packet(格式见 ../.cat-cafe-shared-refs/decision-matrix.md

如果所有 OQ 都是技术型且回滚成本低,不升级 operator——猫猫自决 + 事后通报。

扇入者默认:Brainstorm 类 → operator;技术讨论 → 指定综合者 + 指定把关者。operator可随时覆盖。

Mode B 严格档(高 stakes Roundtable)

来源:2026-06-16 圆桌 saga(docs/content/drafts/longform-005-case-the-roundtable-that-caught-itself.md)。 ⚠️ 原则强化,不是填表剧本——写成僵硬步骤就成了 longform-005 批的"演戏"。

何时启用:决策不可逆 / 多方案价值取舍(非对错题)/ 方向级·跨多 feature。门槛宜高——日常 plan 走标准 Mode B,别开严格档(仪式化会贬值)。标准 6 阶段之上多守 5 条原则:

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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. 4d ago First seen · 152 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 0d00707fd376

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collaborative-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository zts212653/clowder-ai (2,880 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 2,669 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 2026-08-30.

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