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Produces a reversibility classification that triages a decision before any analysis - labeling it a reversible two-way door or a hard-to-reverse one-way door - and matches the deliberation and sign-off level to that verdict, so reversible calls are made fast…
Produces a binary-vote comparison matrix (every pair judged A-beats-B), a derived ranking, and a consistency check, ordering options without any criteria axis or absolute scoring. Use when items must be ranked but no defensible scale or articulable criteria…
Evaluates a decision or idea through several deliberately separated lenses in turn (facts, upside, risks, intuition, alternatives, process) so that no single mode dominates, then synthesizes them into a balanced read, producing a multi-lens review. Use when a…
Generates a ranked risk register that stress-tests a planned decision by imagining it has already failed, surfacing the likely causes and pairing each with a mitigation, tripwire, and kill criterion. Use when about to commit to a launch, hire, investment,…
Generates several genuinely different framings of an ambiguous problem by varying altitude, stakeholder, and goal-versus-implementation, then selects the most useful one to solve and produces a reframed problem statement with How Might We angles. Use when a…
Evaluates rival causal explanations of a single case by typing each piece of within-case evidence by its diagnosticity (hoop, smoking-gun, straw-in-the-wind, doubly-decisive tests) against each rival's mechanism chain, then eliminating or confirming rivals…
Produces a pyramid that structures a recommendation answer-first - a single governing thought on top, a small set of MECE, deliberately ordered key arguments beneath it, and supporting evidence under each (Minto), with an optional SCQA intro framing. Use when…
Handles a by-name request for QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis), the truth-table-and-Boolean-minimization method, honestly. At session scale the input almost never exists and the method certifies configurations from noise, so this skill does NOT build…
Generates a rapid burst of questions about a problem (questions only, no answers), then ranks them for which would most change the approach and selects the single most catalytic one to pursue, producing a ranked question set. Use when you are stuck, too…
Generates three off-pattern framework analyses of a topic by drawing frameworks at random, applying each regardless of fit, and harvesting the non-obvious angles the unexpected lenses expose. Use when a framing feels frozen or fixated and the goal is to break…
Produces an adversarial critique by constructing the strongest case against a proposal or thesis (the best objections an intelligent adversary would raise), then judging which objections actually land and what would rebut them. Use when a plan has too-easy…
Produces a reference-class estimate by defining a class of similar past cases, taking their base-rate distribution of outcomes, and anchoring the forecast on that outside view rather than the optimistic inside view, with a conservative adjustment for…
Runs reflective equilibrium (mutual adjustment between considered case judgments, general principles, and background theories) caveat-first. It leads with the weak evidence (philosophically central since Rawls 1971 but empirically untested as a procedure,…
Researches a thinking framework end to end and produces a schema-valid proposed registry entry plus a learning dossier, grading the evidence on the seven-tier model and assessing overlap against the shipped catalog. Use when you need an honest evidence grade…
Produces a persona-tagged divergent idea list, ideas generated while inhabiting a chosen non-self identity to lower self-censorship and shift associations. Use when idea flow is throttled by self-consciousness or a fixated frame rather than missing knowledge,…
Generates a structured set of variations on an existing idea, product, or process by running it through seven transformation prompts (substitute, combine, adapt, modify, put to other use, eliminate, reverse), then shortlists the most promising, producing an…
Produces a scenario set, 2-4 contrasting and internally consistent short narratives of alternative external futures named by two critical-uncertainty axes, plus a robustness read of the strategy across the worlds (which moves survive every world, which early…
Produces an anti-goals register by assuming a design succeeds at scale, narrating the near-future in which that success harms third parties (including non-users) and is exploited in bad faith by named bad actors, then converting each speculated harm into a…
Produces a stock-flow map by separating a quantity that accumulates from the inflows and outflows that change it, then reasoning about the stock's trajectory from the net flow rather than the direction of any single flow. Use when a problem involves an…
Runs a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) caveat-first. It leads with the weak evidence (Hill and Westbrook 1997 found real SWOT grids did not amount to analysis), then forces the discipline a bare grid lacks, namely evidence-tagged…
Produces a constraint-intervention plan that names the single binding constraint capping a system's throughput and attaches its exploit, subordinate, and elevate decisions, after testing capacity versus demand at each step to confirm that step is genuinely…
Produces a three-curve transition map (a declining present H1, a contested middle H2 read in two directions, an emerging future H3) with the actor located in it. Use when a group is stuck in a present-versus-future binary and needs to govern the managed…
Produces a worked three-framework analysis of a topic. Ranks the library's thinking frameworks for relevance, applies the top three so each emits its real artifact, and reconciles them into one cross-framework synthesis. Use when a decision, problem, or stuck…
Produces a veiled-decision comparison that decides a values trade-off as if the decider had an equal chance of being any affected party, under an explicit decision rule, then returns to the positioned decision and names the gap that self-interest was silently…
Evaluates one short defeasible argument by classifying it as a stereotyped reasoning scheme (appeal to expert opinion, analogy, sign, cause to effect, consequences, popular practice, slippery slope, practical reasoning), instantiating the scheme's premise…
Converts a strategy, option, or contested claim into the specific conditions that would have to be true for it to be the best choice, rates each condition's confidence, and identifies which load-bearing assumptions to test first, producing an assumption…
Produces a WOOP commitment card by working through Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, and Plan - contrasting the desired outcome against the main internal obstacle and binding an if-then response to it. Use when a goal is already chosen but follow-through keeps…
REPLACE with one sentence. Lead with an action verb (Generates / Produces / Evaluates / Audits / Checks), name the artifact it produces, and include a "Use when ..." clause with concrete trigger words. Third person. Do NOT use first person ("you can", "you…