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cc-thinking-skills

28 eval-informed mental models and critical-thinking skills for Claude Code, GitHub...

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28 skills

Thinking Bounded Rationality

Use when search or investigation could run forever.

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Thinking Circle Of Competence

Use when a specific claim may lack grounding.

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Thinking Cynefin

When the right response mode is unclear, classify the cause-effect domain first...

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Thinking Effectuation

Under genuine uncertainty with no reliable forecast, inventory means, cap downside at...

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Thinking First Principles

When a constraint is treated as fixed, separate physics from convention, keep only...

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Thinking Five Whys Plus

When a fault is localized and the proximate cause is known but the systemic root is...

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Thinking Jobs To Be Done

Deciding what to build or why adoption fails.

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Thinking Kepner Tregoe

Use when a selective defect needs IS/IS-NOT difference analysis or a consequential...

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Thinking Lindy Effect

Use when longevity of a non-perishable option matters.

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Thinking Map Territory

When a claim, doc, test, metric, or assumption conflicts with observed behavior, stop...

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Thinking Margin Of Safety

When provisioning, setting a limit, or committing an estimate under uncertainty, size a...

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Thinking Model Combination

When one mental model leaves a material blind spot on a multi-domain or high-stakes...

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Thinking Model Router

When unsure which thinking skill fits, map domain and problem type, then return NONE or...

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Thinking Ooda

Use under time pressure when the situation is still changing and you must act before...

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Thinking Opportunity Cost

Before committing scarce time, people, or money, name the best forgone use of those...

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Thinking Pre Mortem

Before committing to a plan or launch, assume it already failed and reason backward...

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Thinking Probabilistic

Use when forecasting, estimating, or sizing risk, anchor on base rates, give ranges...

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Thinking Red Team

For authorized security review of code, auth, or APIs you control, model the attacker...

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Thinking Reversibility

Before heavy deliberation, classify the decision as cheap or costly to undo; decide...

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Thinking Scientific Method

When a symptom has several plausible causes, rank falsifiable hypotheses and run the...

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Thinking Second Order

When a change has effects past the immediate fix, incentives, scale, feedback, trace...

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Thinking Socratic

When a request is vague, assumption-laden, or "obvious," ask the few load-bearing...

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Thinking Steel Manning

Before rejecting a proposal or reflexively agreeing, build the strongest faithful...

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Thinking Systems

When behavior is emergent across components, fixes elsewhere break, loops/delays...

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Thinking Theory Of Constraints

When throughput or latency is pipeline-limited, identify the single binding constraint...

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Thinking Thought Experiment

When a real test is too rare, large, or irreversible, run a controlled counterfactual...

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Thinking Triz

When two design requirements seem mutually exclusive, name the contradiction, separate...

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Thinking Via Negativa

Use when the reflex is to add a feature, layer, or process.

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