generative-thinking SKILL.md skillA
generative-thinking from oaustegard/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/generative-thinking@v0.3.0Pins v0.3.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- oaustegard/claude-skills
- Path
plugins/ai-and-reasoning/skills/generative-thinking/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v0.3.0, committed Sep 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 25, 2026
- Size
- 23,117 bytes
- Repository stars
- 158
- License
- MIT
Break out of a locked problem frame by picking one disciplined move — reframe, provocation (Po), random stimulus, SCAMPER, inversion, structured analogy, constraint play, or family traversal — and committing to it before evaluating. Use when stuck, when options feel narrow or obvious, when iterations produce variations of the same idea, or when the user says "widen this", "break out of", "think differently", "I'm stuck", "feels too obvious", "stress-test the framing", "what am I missing", or…
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
# Generative Thinking — One Move, Committed
Fixation is the default state. When a generator (human or LLM) has been working on a problem, attention concentrates on the current framing and subsequent ideas tend to be local variations on it. This skill is the interrupt: spend one move stepping sideways, then resume.
The discipline matters more than the move. Pick ONE technique per invocation, run it without second-guessing, and produce explicit reframings or candidate entry points — not a brainstorm list in the same frame.
## When to reach for this
Claude activates this skill when:
- The last 2+ iterations are variations of one idea (fixation signal)
- The user says "widen this", "think bigger", "I'm stuck", "what am I missing", "too narrow", "break out of"
- A problem is framed as a binary ("X or Y") and neither option is good
- An agent loop is producing convergent variations — suspect the frame, not the search depth
- The user explicitly wants a pre-mortem on the *framing* (not the plan) before committing
Do NOT activate this skill as a default before every consequential task — fixation is the trigger, not stakes. If the current frame is working, let it work.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/generative-thinking@sha256:8d01914546b3042dThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.3.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_mkjfc7wqgnti3vja)
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The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 25, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026, about one every 52 days.
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| v0.3.0 latest | 2026-09-16 | 2f31f89 | 23,117 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.2.0 | 2026-07-25 | 4b31e7d | 17,362 B | A | view |
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- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source
oaustegard/claude-skills · 158 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mkjfc7wqgnti3vja GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/generative-thinking GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8d01914546b3042dfabd8c81c8086f1ac719ca237b73e5fc27d6166e061f711a
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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