collaborative-thinking

collaborative-thinking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zts212653/clowder-ai. It costs 99 tokens per session (2,779 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

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for brainstorming, architecture choices, process design, direction-setting, and summarising a discussion into a specification and action list.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zts212653/clowder-ai/collaborative-thinking
About the project

Clowder AI is a self-hosted workspace where AI agents from different model families work together as a persistent team, retaining identities, shared evidence, and memory across tasks. It is for people who want to coordinate multiple AI agents without repeatedly rebuilding their context.

zts212653/clowder-ai · 3,471 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

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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 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,779 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00099 $0.02779
Opus 5.5 $0.00040 $0.01112
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00556
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00278

Measured 14d ago against content hash 972b607f74a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 14d 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 · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Collaborative Thinking

三种按需使用的思考方式:单人探索 / 多猫独立思考 / 讨论收敛沉淀。feat-lifecycle 处理 Feature 的需求与设计;这里也容纳尚未指向交付的共同探索。讨论可以停在更清楚的问题、被推翻的假设或未决取舍,不自动产生任务、审批卡或下一阶段。已有明确委托沿原责任推进,不因开始讨论重新采访。

核心知识

模式 何时用 何时不用
A 单人探索 1:1 共同理解问题、探讨想法或设计 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:一起弄清正在关心的问题,允许修正问题本身;到了要交付的地方,再形成可执行范围。

  1. 理解上下文:先恢复相关事实和已有决定。结合语境理解对方是在举反例、开放探索还是委托交付;只澄清会影响当前理解的未知,不把一句想法加工成需求采访。
  2. 探索方案:拿出理由、反例和有意义的备选,允许一起换问题。已进入交付设计时,才据真实需求判断哪些功能值得做。
  3. 呈现进展:把眼前的新理解或具体稿给对方看,说明重要取舍。提问服务真实疑点,不按字数分段索要确认;对方主动参与和猫主动占用注意力的分寸见 决策准备。
  4. 收尾:可以在当前对话说明所得与尚未确定之处。确有后续消费、需要留存且已有授权时,再写设计或讨论记录;讨论结束不等于授权写文件、commit 或开始实现。

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: 有待决事项时请operator参与;有留存需要时进入 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"。

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 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. 14d ago Changed · -8 lines · +3 tokens per session 972b607f74a4
  2. 1mo 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 (3,471 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 2,779 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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