think-scamper SKILL.md skillA
think-scamper from product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-scamper@v0.1.0Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills
- Path
skills/think-scamper/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Jun 1, 2026
- Size
- 3,992 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- Apache-2.0
Generates a structured set of variations on an existing idea, product, or process by running it through seven transformation prompts (substitute, combine, adapt, modify, put to other use, eliminate, reverse), then shortlists the most promising, producing an expansion sheet. Use when you have a seed idea and need to break past the obvious options; not for blank-page ideation.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
<!-- thinking-framework-skills | https://github.com/product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills | Apache-2.0 --> # SCAMPER People and models fixate on the first few obvious variations of an idea. SCAMPER counters that by running an existing idea, product, or process through seven transformation prompts, each forcing a different kind of change: Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify (magnify or minify), Put to other use, Eliminate, Reverse. It is a later-stage method: it transforms a seed that already exists, it is not a blank-page generator. The output is an **expansion sheet** that ends in a shortlist of the most promising variations, not an undifferentiated pile of ideas. ## When to Use - A seed idea, product, feature, or process already exists and needs to be pushed past the obvious. - Late-stage ideation, or loosening a stuck or merely incremental option set. - After the problem is framed and before converging on a choice. ## When NOT to Use - Blank page. With no seed to transform, there is nothing to operate on; reframe first or use a different generator. - When the problem needs reframing, not more options (use problem restatement). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-scamper@sha256:359664018b46bf66The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3xvxrsmrrpblevm5)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 1, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3992 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills · 25 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3xvxrsmrrpblevm5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-scamper GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/359664018b46bf66f90cefd51f6197fd317365aafcdc1e5d400c5b3499246a1d
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