think-far-analogy-ideation SKILL.md skillA
think-far-analogy-ideation 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-far-analogy-ideation@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-far-analogy-ideation/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Jun 1, 2026
- Size
- 4,110 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- Apache-2.0
Generates novel solution candidates by stating a problem's deep relational structure, mapping it to distant source domains (nature, other industries, games), and transferring the mechanism rather than surface features, then adapting. Use when near, obvious solutions are exhausted and you need genuinely original approaches.
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 -->
# Far-Analogy Ideation
Most ideation transfers solutions from near domains (products like yours), which yields obvious, low-novelty ideas. Far-analogy ideation deliberately reaches to distant domains - nature, other industries, games, history - and transfers the deep relational structure of a working solution there, not its surface features. The originality comes from the distance; the validity comes from mapping structure, not surface similarity. The output is a **far-analogy transfer sheet** of candidate mechanisms to adapt. The failure to avoid: surface-matching ("both involve networks"), which produces cute-but-useless analogies and carries none of the benefit.
## When to Use
- Near, obvious solutions are exhausted or all look alike.
- You want genuinely original approaches, not incremental variations.
- The problem has a clear underlying structure that can be stated abstractly.
## When NOT to Use
- An obvious near solution already exists and works (far analogy is overkill and riskier).
- When you need to converge and decide (use a decision skill).
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-far-analogy-ideation@sha256:f4f3297e6afa1e04The 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_znozibtvnybttnrt)
3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 1, 2026.
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 (4110 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
product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills · 25 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_znozibtvnybttnrt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-far-analogy-ideation GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f4f3297e6afa1e04dbf1165903c472ac78477c6826082ce1b45475af3a2992b5
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.