think-backcasting SKILL.md skillA
think-backcasting 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-backcasting@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
- Path
skills/think-backcasting/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Jun 1, 2026
- Size
- 6,206 bytes
- Repository stars
- 21
- License
- Apache-2.0
Produces a backcast path by fixing a vivid desired future state and reasoning backward through the milestones and preconditions required to reach it, ending at the next concrete step available now. Use when planning toward a transformative or long-horizon goal that forward planning anchors too low, when a chosen future needs a route mapped back to today, or when milestones and dependencies between now and the goal must be made explicit.
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 --> # Backcasting Forward planning anchors on today's constraints and tends to extrapolate the status quo. Backcasting reverses the direction: it fixes a vivid, concrete *desired future state* first, then reasons backward to the milestones and preconditions that must be true for that future to exist, link by link, until it reaches the next concrete step available now. The reversal is what does the work - it decouples the goal from present limits, forces each milestone to name what had to be true just before it, and connects an aspirational future to something executable today. The output is a **backcast path**, not a discussion. This is a route to a chosen success, not a forecast and not a test of whether the goal is right. ## When to Use - Planning toward a transformative or longer-horizon goal where forward planning anchors too low and just extrapolates the present. - A desired future has been chosen and needs a route mapped backward to the next step today. - The milestones, dependencies, and sequencing between now and the goal need to be made explicit. …
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How to install
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-backcasting@sha256:5588b3f67648dc7cThe 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 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 1, 2026.
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Source
product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills · 21 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_m54vucjjmgkgm5wi GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-backcasting GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5588b3f67648dc7cd93b3288b84b5731a8b70b8ebcfa393e9d303a9b7ae9c759
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