think-dialectical-bootstrapping SKILL.md skillA
think-dialectical-bootstrapping 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-dialectical-bootstrapping@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-dialectical-bootstrapping/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Jun 12, 2026
- Size
- 9,989 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- Apache-2.0
Produces a dialectical estimate that improves a single committed number by polling the inner crowd, make a first estimate, assume it is wrong and list why, read whether that pushes the answer too high or too low, make a second estimate from those changed assumptions, then mechanically average the two. Use when a hard, one-off, bounded-scale numeric estimate (a year, a percentage, a count, a forecast) is about to be committed and no second judge, no real reference class, and no better data are…
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 --> # Dialectical Bootstrapping A single estimate of a hard quantity is an anchor: the first number that comes to mind quietly fixes the answer, and merely staring at it again does not move it. Dialectical bootstrapping breaks that anchor by simulating a second opinion from inside one head and then harvesting it the way a crowd is harvested - by averaging. The durable move is to **poll the inner crowd and force the synthesis to be arithmetic**: make a first estimate, deliberately assume it is wrong and generate a second estimate that draws on at least partly different knowledge, then take the plain arithmetic mean of the two numbers as the committed answer. The statistical reason it works is the wisdom of crowds in miniature - averaging two estimates cancels random error, and when the two bracket the truth (one too high, one too low) it eats into systematic error too. The "dialectical" name is literal: thesis (first estimate), antithesis (the contrarian second estimate), synthesis (the average). The output is a **dialectical estimate** artifact, not prose: the… …
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How to install
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-dialectical-bootstrapping@sha256:1d42fc0b15b334e6The 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 12, 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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