think-affinity-mapping SKILL.md skillA
think-affinity-mapping 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-affinity-mapping@v0.1.0Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills
- Path
skills/think-affinity-mapping/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Jun 1, 2026
- Size
- 6,146 bytes
- Repository stars
- 21
- License
- Apache-2.0
Produces a clustered theme map that groups many raw notes, observations, quotes, or data points bottom-up into a small set of named, traceable themes (the KJ method). Use when a scattered pile of dozens to hundreds of existing items needs to become a few emergent themes, such as synthesizing user-research notes, support tickets, survey free-text, or retro stickies, and the right structure should emerge from the data rather than be imposed.
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 --> # Affinity Mapping Affinity mapping takes a pile of many individual items - raw notes, observations, quotes, data points - and groups them *bottom-up by felt similarity* until a small set of emergent themes appears, then names each theme so the names become the structure. The load-bearing move is **deferred, bottom-up categorization**: you do not sort items into predefined buckets, you let the categories surface from the items themselves. This externalizes comparison so patterns hidden in a linear list become visible, resists the frame you walked in with, and compresses many items into a few themes while keeping every item traceable to its theme. The output is a **clustered theme map**, not a discussion. ## When to Use - When dozens to hundreds of existing items - user-research notes, interview quotes, support tickets, survey free-text, retro stickies, workshop output - need to become a few themes. - When the right structure is not known in advance and should emerge from the data rather than be imposed. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-affinity-mapping@sha256:82f5b92d3c5593baThe 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 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
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