# Think

Apply the Fable-derived 10-stage OBSERVE, OBSERVE, LISTEN, THINK, CONNECT, CONNECT...

- Repository: https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian (16054 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-25
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian --skill think -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian --skill think -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian --skill think -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian --skill think -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian`

## Description

Apply the Fable-derived 10-stage OBSERVE, OBSERVE, LISTEN, THINK, CONNECT, CONNECT, FEEL, ACCEPT, CREATE, GROW loop to consequential or ambiguous reasoning and decisions. Use for think this through, deep think, architecture review, postmortem, tradeoff analysis, or challenges to assumptions. This is a reasoning review, not a deterministic vault health check or repair workflow.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Think

Use the ten stages as a loop of attention, not a ceremonial transcript. Scale
the depth to novelty, stakes, uncertainty, and irreversibility. Keep the final
reasoning summary concise and evidence-bearing.

This skill is read-only. It may inspect available evidence, but it does not
edit files, execute a vault mutation, commit Git, or publish anything. If the
CREATE stage recommends a change, compose with the appropriate mutation skill
after the user authorizes that operation.

## Establish an evidence frame

Before the loop, separate:

- **Observed:** directly supported by an input, source, test, or measurement.
- **Inferred:** a conclusion drawn from observations; state the bridge.
- **Unknown:** missing evidence that could change the decision.
- **Preference:** a user or designer choice, not a factual claim.

Attach citations or concrete locators when sources exist. Never fabricate a
quotation, locator, test result, consensus, or confidence level.

## The ten stages

### 1. OBSERVE: external

Read the actual inputs, current state, constraints, failures, and prior work.
Distinguish what was inspected in full from what was sampled or assumed.

### 2. OBSERVE: internal

Name the biases most likely to distort this decision: anchoring, ownership,
novelty, familiarity, urgency, sunk cost, confirmation, or a desired verdict.
Recalibrate confidence to the evidence available.

### 3. LISTEN

Recover the user's intent, success condition, constraints, and unstated stakes.
Attend to error messages, dissent, edge cases, and affected voices. Ask only
questions whose answers could materially change the outcome.

### 4. THINK

Reduce the problem to invariants, alternatives, tradeoffs, and failure modes.
Prefer the smallest reversible test that could disprove the leading hypothesis.
Treat failure behavior as part of the specification.

### 5. CONNECT: lateral

The rest: https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian/blob/HEAD/skills/think/SKILL.md