lateral-thinking SKILL.md skillA
lateral-thinking from ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/lateral-thinking@v2026.10.5Pins v2026.10.5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills
- Path
skills/lateral-thinking/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v2026.10.5, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 18, 2026
- Size
- 3,619 bytes
- Repository stars
- 17
- License
- MIT
Use for lateral thinking, or when ideas feel stuck or incremental: "we've tried everything", "need a surprising angle", "break the pattern", "give me a wild idea that could work". Uses provocations and reframes. Skip for rule lookups or strict logical proofs.
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
# Lateral Thinking Edward de Bono's method for escaping a rut: **movement before judgment**. A provocative line is a stepping stone, never a final position. ## When to use - Brainstorming stalled or every option is a small variation of the current one. - The user wants a surprising angle, a reframe, or to challenge an assumption they call "just how it works". - Conventional ideation already ran and produced nothing fresh. Skip: a single compliant rule lookup, a tight logical proof, or users with no appetite for playful what-if moves. ## Before you start 1. State in one block: **Stuck point** (which pattern or assumption feels rigid) and **Pass**: Provocation, Extract principle, Concept fan, Candidates (or the alternate path below). 2. **Gather first.** If you can read the project or earlier attempts, check what was already tried so you do not repeat it. Ask up to 3 questions only for safety or legal limits that tools cannot answer. 3. **Light path.** Small ask: one Po, one principle, 2 ideas per fan level, 3 candidates. Alternate paths (use only when the user asks): …
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How to install
mdr add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/lateral-thinking@sha256:08fb375aadccbca7The line at the top of this page pins the label v2026.10.5, 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 May 18, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 35 days.
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| v2026.10.5 latest | 2026-10-05 | f2bebb8 | 3,619 B | A | view · diff |
| v2026.5.17 | 2026-05-18 | 1866e36 | 3,405 B | A | view · diff |
| v2026.5.17 | 2026-05-18 | ceb6606 | 3,318 B | A | view · diff |
| v2026.5.17 | 2026-05-18 | 6afc97b | 3,181 B | A | view · diff |
| v2026.5.17 | 2026-05-18 | 926b700 | 2,951 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ziyuxecvhzjpfwrr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/lateral-thinking GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/08fb375aadccbca79bd266e7e95bf3f461f3a70203281685c1acfd809507ab41
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