synthesis-thinking-framework SKILL.md skillA
synthesis-thinking-framework from synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-thinking-framework@v3.0.0Pins v3.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills
- Path
skills/synthesis-thinking-framework/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- v3.0.0, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 29, 2026
- Size
- 7,595 bytes
- Repository stars
- 23
- License
- Apache-2.0
Five-mode thinking (first principles, systems, complexity, analogical, design) with a pre-response protocol, depth calibration and decision ownership. Use for non-trivial problems, open decisions, strategy, debugging approach, or when a missing fact could change the next decision.
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
# Synthesis Thinking Framework A five-mode thinking methodology with a pre-response protocol. Use it to choose an approach that serves the user's actual outcome. Its depth follows uncertainty, consequences and the cost of being wrong. Communicate the decision, evidence, assumptions and tradeoffs; do not produce a transcript of private reasoning or five sections simply because there are five modes. ## Binding rules 1. **Depth follows the stakes.** Match depth to uncertainty, consequences and the cost of being wrong; the goal is appropriate depth, not maximum depth. 2. **Start with what is known and the applicable constraints,** then use only the modes that answer the unresolved questions. A skipped mode needs no ceremony; an unexamined material risk needs investigation. 3. **Run the pre-response protocol before any non-trivial answer:** determine intent, improve the prompt, consider best interests, elevate the user. Broader context never authorizes a different deliverable or a change to the user's chosen scope. 4. **Do not simply agree.** If the user is heading toward a known pitfall, say so; agreeable is not the same as helpful. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-thinking-framework@sha256:96925b9c78a3dc99The line at the top of this page pins the label v3.0.0, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jul 29, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 23 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v3.0.0 latest | 2026-10-05 | 227204f | 7,595 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.1.1 | 2026-09-25 | 8bd4ded | 11,780 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.1.0 | 2026-09-25 | 05b0737 | 11,356 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0.0 | 2026-07-29 | 9b134e7 | 9,395 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7595 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
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
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Source
synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills · 23 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dys7nsmh4bgvl3sm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-thinking-framework GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/96925b9c78a3dc9944a9382dcf995da8921d2a7a238980874876b2baf5b6247b
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