think-boundary-critique SKILL.md skillA
think-boundary-critique 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-boundary-critique@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-boundary-critique/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Jun 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 9, 2026
- Size
- 9,454 bytes
- Repository stars
- 21
- License
- Apache-2.0
Audits the boundary judgments that silently define a problem frame. For each of four sources, who benefits, who decides, whose knowledge counts, who has standing, it contrasts the descriptive is boundary against the normative ought boundary, names the gaps, and lists the affected-but-excluded parties who have no voice in the frame, producing a boundary-judgment audit rather than a stakeholder round-up. Use when a plan, metric, or proposal already encodes who matters and who does not and the…
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 --> # Boundary Critique Every problem frame draws a line before any reasoning starts: who counts, what counts, whose improvement is the point, and who is left on the other side of the line. Those prior decisions are **boundary judgments**, and they condition both the facts you collect and the values you weigh. The reflex is to reason inside the frame as given. Boundary critique refuses that reflex and makes the frame itself the suspect object. It interrogates each boundary judgment in two modes - how the frame currently draws the line (the **is** mode) and how it ought to (the **ought** mode) - and forces an explicit account of the parties who have a stake in the consequences but no seat in the frame. The move is the de-branded core of Critical Systems Heuristics (Werner Ulrich, from 1983, later with Martin Reynolds). The output is a **boundary-judgment audit**, not a discussion. ## When to Use …
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How to install
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-boundary-critique@sha256:345544a5dfb9c040The 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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The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jun 9, 2026 and Jun 12, 2026, about one every 2 days.
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| v0.1.0 latest | 2026-06-12 | f4e7d9a | 9,454 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-06-09 | df8b042 | 9,359 B | A | view |
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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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