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SKILL.md skill
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product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills
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skills/think-morphological-analysis/SKILL.md
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Latest version
v0.1.0, committed Oct 21, 2026
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Jun 10, 2026
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Repository stars
25
License
Apache-2.0

Produces a morphological field (a Zwicky box of independent parameters by their possible values) plus a cross-consistency-pruned set of internally consistent configurations. Use when a solution is genuinely a configuration - a choice on each of several semi-independent dimensions (product architecture, service bundle, policy package) - and the risk is defaulting to one familiar combination and never seeing the rest of the space. Not a top-down MECE tree and not a provoked option list.

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What the file says

<!-- thinking-framework-skills | https://github.com/product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills | Apache-2.0 -->
# Morphological Analysis

Most design and option work jumps straight to a few familiar combinations and never sees the rest of the space. Morphological analysis (the "Zwicky box") refuses that shortcut. It treats a solution as a CONFIGURATION - a single value chosen on each of several semi-independent dimensions - and lays the whole space out so the unobvious corners come into view. The durable move has two halves, and the second is what separates it from a plain options list: (1) decompose the problem into a small set of independent PARAMETERS with their discrete VALUES, giving the full combinatorial cross-product; then (2) run a **cross-consistency assessment** - pair off every value with every other value across parameters, strike the internally incompatible pairs, and keep only the configurations that survive. The output is a **morphological field**: a parameter-by-value box plus a consistency-pruned set of internally consistent configurations. It is not a tree, not a ranked list, and not the chosen answer - it generates and prunes-for-consistency; a downstream…
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Source

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product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills · 25 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

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GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-morphological-analysis
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b20558a6389973dab952f0acb9fdc038b9352e26855c91eea94842975519b9bf

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