problem-reframing SKILL.md skillA
problem-reframing from cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/problem-reframing@git:20261021.4372ea9Pins git:20261021.4372ea9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents
- Path
skills/problem-reframing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261021.4372ea9, committed Oct 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 22, 2026
- Size
- 3,394 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
The question itself may be the bug. Use when a debate goes in circles, both options of a binary feel wrong, improving one parameter degrades another, "we're stuck" on a problem that resists direct attack, a metaphor is doing hidden work in the architecture, or a trade-off is being denied rather than made.
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
# Problem Reframing **Problem shape:** effort is being spent on a question that is malformed — a false binary, a contradiction treated as a compromise, a metaphor mistaken for the mechanism, a dispute about words masquerading as a dispute about facts. The move: dissolve, restate, or invert the frame before solving anything. ## Relevant geniuses | Agent | Use when | |---|---| | [wittgenstein](../../agents/genius/wittgenstein.md) | the dispute is about how words are being used — audit the language game; some problems dissolve rather than resolve | | [nagarjuna](../../agents/genius/nagarjuna.md) | both sides of a binary feel wrong — run the tetralemma (true / false / both / neither) | | [aristotle](../../agents/genius/aristotle.md) | "why" questions conflated — separate the four causes; catalog the fallacies in play | | [midgley](../../agents/genius/midgley.md) | a metaphor (machine, war, market, brain) silently shapes the design — audit where it breaks down | | [leguin](../../agents/genius/leguin.md) | a trade-off is being denied — force the genuine cost onto the table; audit the narrative frame of the plan | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/problem-reframing@sha256:3355aebd550fac1eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261021.4372ea9, 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 3 versions of this file, between Jul 22, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, about one every 46 days.
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| git:20261021.4372ea9 latest | 2026-10-21 | 4372ea9 | 3,394 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260805.e8cc65e | 2026-08-05 | e8cc65e | 3,333 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260722.b89f9c1 | 2026-07-22 | b89f9c1 | 3,305 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3394 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
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- 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
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Source
cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wzpwdvbcbiri2awe GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/problem-reframing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3355aebd550fac1e1cb914ccc9f29945836568a418a6396a2809f672a2c64f30
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