think-causal-layered-analysis SKILL.md skillA
think-causal-layered-analysis 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-causal-layered-analysis@v0.1.0Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills
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skills/think-causal-layered-analysis/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Oct 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 10, 2026
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- 11,904 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- Apache-2.0
Produces a four-layer matrix (litany, system, worldview, myth) of the current 'used future' beside a reconstructed preferred future per layer, anchored by a deliberately changed deep metaphor. Use when an issue is stuck because the framing is stuck, the official account and the system explanation have been argued to exhaustion, and the real disagreement is about clashing worldviews and the unexamined story underneath. Not a single-cause diagnosis (that is think-iceberg-model) and not a forecast.
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 --> # Causal Layered Analysis Most contested issues are argued at the surface and the system level - the headline numbers and the policy fixes - long after that argument has stopped being productive, because the real disagreement lives in clashing worldviews and an unexamined story underneath. Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) reads an issue at four vertical depths and then rebuilds it. It descends through the **litany** (the official, visible, unquestioned account), the **system** (the structural and short-term causes the litany rests on), the **worldview** (the deeper ideological and paradigmatic assumptions, and *whose* worldview is privileged), and the **myth/metaphor** (the unconscious, emotive, civilizational story underneath, carried in a guiding metaphor). The durable move is not the descent alone. It is to treat the issue as a text with *competing* readings rather than one true cause, and then to **move back up and reconstruct** - rewrite the deep metaphor into a new one and propagate a transformed worldview, system, and litany that follow from it. The output is a… …
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How to install
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-causal-layered-analysis@sha256:328ec2c07196a64dThe 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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