six-thinking-hats SKILL.md skillA
six-thinking-hats from ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/six-thinking-hats@v2026.10.5Pins v2026.10.5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills
- Path
skills/six-thinking-hats/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v2026.10.5, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 18, 2026
- Size
- 4,218 bytes
- Repository stars
- 17
- License
- MIT
Use for Six Thinking Hats or de Bono's parallel thinking, or when a decision or idea needs facts, gut feel, risks, benefits and new options kept apart: "look at this from all sides", "full perspective check". Skip for plain factual questions or single-angle hot takes.
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
# Six Thinking Hats Edward de Bono's **parallel thinking**: everyone wears the same hat at the same time, so facts, feelings, risks, benefits and new ideas stop arguing inside one reply. One **focus question**, six roles in sequence. ## When to use - A decision, plan or idea where the user keeps mixing "what is true", "how I feel", "what could break" and "what could be great". - The user names the method, de Bono, or asks for a hat-by-hat pass. - A brainstorm or review that needs structure and a closing synthesis. Skip: factual lookups, execution-only work, quick opinions where the user does not want six separate passes. ## Before you start 1. Open with a short **Blue (open)** block: focus question (one sentence), mode, hat order. This block is the opening Blue pass; do not print a second opening section. 2. **Gather first.** If you can read files, search or run queries, do it before filling White. Ask up to 3 questions only for what tools cannot answer, then proceed and note gaps in plain words. 3. **Light path.** Small ask: 2 bullets per hat, 3-bullet synthesis. Otherwise 3 bullets per hat; add detail only when the user asks for depth. ## Modes …
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How to install
mdr add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/six-thinking-hats@sha256:7fc8539f5093d2b6The line at the top of this page pins the label v2026.10.5, 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 5 versions of this file, between May 18, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 35 days.
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| v2026.10.5 latest | 2026-10-05 | f2bebb8 | 4,218 B | A | view · diff |
| v2026.5.18 | 2026-05-18 | 1866e36 | 6,263 B | A | view · diff |
| v2026.5.18 | 2026-05-18 | ceb6606 | 6,166 B | A | view · diff |
| v2026.5.18 | 2026-05-18 | 5b9b5e1 | 6,151 B | A | view · diff |
| v2026.5.25 | 2026-05-18 | 6beb183 | 5,848 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
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