think-problem-restatement SKILL.md skillA
think-problem-restatement 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-problem-restatement@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-problem-restatement/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Sep 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 1, 2026
- Size
- 4,973 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- Apache-2.0
Generates several genuinely different framings of an ambiguous problem by varying altitude, stakeholder, and goal-versus-implementation, then selects the most useful one to solve and produces a reframed problem statement with How Might We angles. Use when a problem is vague, arrived as a symptom or a pre-baked solution, or before committing significant work to solving the wrong thing.
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 -->
# Problem Restatement
The default failure is to solve a problem exactly as first stated, even though the first statement usually encodes a symptom, a presupposed solution, or one stakeholder's view. Problem restatement is a deliberate interrupt before solving: generate several genuinely different formulations of the problem, each by a distinct move (change altitude, separate goal from implementation, shift stakeholder, invert, bound with is/is-not), then choose the most useful one to work on. The output is a **problem frame set** ending in a single chosen working frame, not a longer list and not prose.
## When to Use
- The problem is ambiguous, ill-defined, or stated as a symptom.
- The request names a solution ("build X") but the underlying goal is unstated.
- Solving the wrong problem would be costly; this is upstream of significant work.
- At the start of most reframing, discovery, or strategy workflows.
## When NOT to Use
- The problem is already well-defined and validated; reframing a correct, clear problem wastes effort and manufactures doubt.
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How to install
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-problem-restatement@sha256:1fae1b7aa61e0aaeThe 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jun 1, 2026 and Sep 15, 2026, about one every 106 days.
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| v0.1.0 latest | 2026-09-15 | 01156a8 | 4,973 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-06-01 | 5bad9cb | 4,929 B | A | view |
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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_gxhrl647kq67koiz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-problem-restatement GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1fae1b7aa61e0aae266b150be3c5ffcb37df7b7c0dd4cfe235a4a954c85e3cca
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