think-theory-of-constraints SKILL.md skillA
think-theory-of-constraints 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-theory-of-constraints@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-theory-of-constraints/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Jun 9, 2026
- Size
- 9,655 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- Apache-2.0
Produces a constraint-intervention plan that names the single binding constraint capping a system's throughput and attaches its exploit, subordinate, and elevate decisions, after testing capacity versus demand at each step to confirm that step is genuinely the rate-limiter rather than the loudest one. Use when a system has a clear flow (a pipeline, a funnel, a queue, an approval chain, a production line) whose output is capped by one step and improvement effort is being spread evenly across…
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 --> # Theory of Constraints The throughput of a whole system is governed by **one binding constraint** - its rate-limiting step - so improving anything other than that constraint does almost nothing for the system as a whole. The default improvement instinct is the opposite: make every part faster, cheaper, more utilized. This skill refuses that reflex. It treats local efficiency at a non-constraint as waste, because a non-bottleneck working harder just piles inventory in front of the bottleneck, and it concentrates effort on the one step that caps the flow while **subordinating** (not optimizing) everything else. The single question it forces is whether one step limits the throughput of the whole, and whether effort is aimed there or scattered. The output is a **constraint-intervention plan** - the named binding step plus its exploit, subordinate, and elevate decisions - not a discussion. This is the Five Focusing Steps reduced to its working core; it is deliberately scoped to the bare bottleneck move, not the full Goldratt operational systems (Drum-Buffer-Rope, Critical …
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How to install
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-theory-of-constraints@sha256:e84366ea61d91159The 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.
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Source
product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills · 25 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
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