think-issue-tree SKILL.md skillA
think-issue-tree 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-issue-tree@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-issue-tree/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Oct 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 1, 2026
- Size
- 7,183 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- Apache-2.0
Produces an issue tree that decomposes one big, ambiguous question top-down into a mutually-exclusive, collectively-exhaustive (MECE) set of smaller sub-questions, branch by branch, until the leaves are small enough to answer with data or judgment. Use when a question is too broad or multi-cause to answer as posed (for example "why is churn rising?", "where is margin leaking?", "should we launch a free tier?"), when analysis work must be split into non-overlapping parts, or when coverage…
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 -->
# Issue Tree
A big question like "why are sales down?" cannot be answered as posed; it has to be broken into parts. An issue tree decomposes one question top-down into a structured set of sub-questions, recursively, until the leaves are small enough to answer directly. The load-bearing constraint is **MECE**: at every branch the children must be Mutually Exclusive (no two overlap) and Collectively Exhaustive (together they cover the whole parent, with nothing important left outside). That discipline forces coverage, prevents double-counting, and makes the decomposition inspectable - a reader can challenge one branch instead of arguing a wall of prose. The output is an **issue tree**, not a discussion, and it restructures the question rather than answering it.
## When to Use
- A question is too broad, ambiguous, or multi-cause to answer as posed ("why is churn rising?", "where is our margin leaking?", "should we launch a free tier?").
- Analysis must be split so work can be parallelized or prioritized across non-overlapping branches.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-issue-tree@sha256:4b8f54031df7525dThe 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_ae3dujc2qr4o3ro2)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jun 1, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, about one every 142 days.
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| v0.1.0 latest | 2026-10-21 | d9425d5 | 7,183 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-06-01 | 5bad9cb | 6,666 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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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_ae3dujc2qr4o3ro2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-issue-tree GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4b8f54031df7525dd14f865c318570b68f3fa3bbed556e22cef8c82c820310d9
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