think-consider-the-unknowns SKILL.md skillA
think-consider-the-unknowns 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-consider-the-unknowns@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
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skills/think-consider-the-unknowns/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Jun 12, 2026
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- 10,178 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- Apache-2.0
Produces a known-unknowns ledger by enumerating the relevant evidence not in hand, the variables that bear on a judgment but are unknown or unobservable, rating each unknown by its bearing and its obtainability, then re-rating confidence against the mapped gap. Use when a consequential one-off judgment rests on thin or partial evidence, no usable base rate exists, and the confidence on the table may be inflated by what was never looked at. Not for cases with a real reference class, for…
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 --> # Consider the Unknowns Confidence tracks the strength and coherence of the evidence you actually considered, and people systematically neglect what is missing - the consumer-psychology literature calls this bias omission neglect. A judgment built on three observations feels as solid as one built on thirty if the three cohere. Every other belief-challenge move works on material that is PRESENT: claims made, assumptions held, counterarguments available, failures imaginable. Consider-the-unknowns works on material that is ABSENT. The durable move is to make the absence itself an object of attention - list the relevant variables you do NOT have, classify each as resolvable or genuinely unobservable, rate how much each would change the call, and then re-state your confidence against that mapped gap. The output is a **known-unknowns ledger**: the judgment, the relevant unknown variables with their bearing and obtainability, a flag on the ones worth resolving before committing, and a re-rated confidence with the delta and the reason its size is what it is. ## When to Use …
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How to install
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-consider-the-unknowns@sha256:1b39c4a7be797853The 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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Source
product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills · 25 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
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