think-abstraction-laddering skillA
think-abstraction-laddering is agent-read markdown (skill) from product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills: Builds an abstraction ladder that moves a problem up ("why / to what end?") and down ("how / what specifically?") to locate the right altitude to work at, then marks one rung as the working level. Use when a problem is stated as a bare solution with an unstated purpose, as a vague aspiration with no concrete handle, when people are arguing past each other at different levels, or before committing effort at an altitude nobody chose on purpose..
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How to install
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-abstraction-laddering@v0.1.0mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-abstraction-laddering@sha256:08ab50d7881817e1Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_7oled5a4xjx2srmv)
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- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6571 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 · 14 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-08-17 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7oled5a4xjx2srmv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-abstraction-laddering GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/08ab50d7881817e14e224deb1bcd784a331559e65c8d618820263bc21ab2d405