think-what-would-have-to-be-true SKILL.md skillA
think-what-would-have-to-be-true 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-what-would-have-to-be-true@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-what-would-have-to-be-true/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Jun 1, 2026
- Size
- 4,210 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- Apache-2.0
Converts a strategy, option, or contested claim into the specific conditions that would have to be true for it to be the best choice, rates each condition's confidence, and identifies which load-bearing assumptions to test first, producing an assumption ledger. Use when evaluating a strategic bet, or when a disagreement has become a clash of opinions rather than evidence.
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 --> # What Would Have to Be True When a team debates whether an option is right, it becomes a clash of opinions and the loudest advocate tends to win. This skill flips the question: instead of "is this a good idea?", ask "what would have to be true for this to be the best choice?" That turns a position into explicit conditions, which can be rated for confidence and tested. It depersonalizes disagreement (we are not debating who is right, we are listing conditions and checking them) and separates what *would have to be true* from what *is* true. The output is an **assumption ledger** that ends by naming the one or two conditions worth testing before committing. ## When to Use - Evaluating a consequential strategic bet or a specific option. - A disagreement has hardened into competing opinions with no way to resolve it. - A choice rests on optimistic or unstated assumptions. - Often after options exist and before a final decision; pairs with a decision-comparison skill and with premortem. ## When NOT to Use …
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How to install
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-what-would-have-to-be-true@sha256:f72bb184d082b3d3The 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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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 1, 2026.
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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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