oaustegard/claude-skills · plugins/ai-and-reasoning/skills/generative-thinking/SKILL.md

generative-thinking skillA

generative-thinking is agent-read markdown (skill) from oaustegard/claude-skills: 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 hol.

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How to install

Latest version
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/generative-thinking@v0.3.0
Exact content
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/generative-thinking@sha256:8d01914546b3042d

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v0.3.0 latest2026-09-16 2f31f89 23,117 BA view · diff
v0.2.02026-07-25 4b31e7d 17,362 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (23117 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
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

oaustegard/claude-skills · 148 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-16 · branch main

API

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