design-thinking SKILL.md skillA
design-thinking from deciqai/knowledge-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/design-thinking@git:20261025.cb4e537Pins git:20261025.cb4e537 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- deciqai/knowledge-skills
- Path
design-thinking/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261025.cb4e537, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 16, 2026
- Size
- 9,425 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- MIT
"Activate when: user asks 'why isn't anyone using our product?', 'how do we understand what customers really want?', 'we know the tech works but the market isn't responding', team is stuck on a single solution and needs divergent ideas, or someone discusses user research / personas / prototyping / iterative design.
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
# Design Thinking ## Overview Design thinking — formalized by Tim Brown at IDEO and Stanford's d.school, grounded in Simon (1969) and Rittel's "wicked problems" — replaces assumption-driven decisions with evidence from observed human behavior. Its three-lens test: every viable innovation must sit at the intersection of desirability, feasibility, and viability. Most product failures are desirability failures; teams built something technically sound that people did not want. Composes with neighbors: use [`jobs-to-be-done`](../jobs-to-be-done/SKILL.md) alongside the Define stage; use [`mvp`](../mvp/SKILL.md) after Prototype; use [`lean-startup`](../lean-startup/SKILL.md) as the execution engine after the full five-stage cycle. ## When to Use Apply when: - The real user problem is not yet understood — team has a solution but no observed-behavior evidence - User adoption is failing despite a technically sound product (unresolved desirability gap) - Team is locked into one solution direction and needs divergent thinking first - Problem has multiple conflicting stakeholders and no single correct answer - Team states "we already know what users need" without observational evidence …
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How to install
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/design-thinking@sha256:aa0d134f9f3324f7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.cb4e537, 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 5 versions of this file, between Jul 16, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 25 days.
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| git:20261025.cb4e537 latest | 2026-10-25 | cb4e537 | 9,425 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.be84677 | 2026-08-16 | be84677 | 9,425 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260719.ed3f856 | 2026-07-19 | ed3f856 | 9,425 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.2ed857e | 2026-07-17 | 2ed857e | 9,425 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.fac12bf | 2026-07-16 | fac12bf | 9,425 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 (9425 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
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- 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
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
deciqai/knowledge-skills · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ytwxa7xoi4keruq7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deciqai/knowledge-skills/design-thinking GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/aa0d134f9f3324f791d02412de45fcde57133ccabf00b76f70513b6bfe95b473
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