skills-toolbox

Use when the user wants rigorous thinking before landing on an answer — framing a fuzzy problem, surfacing hidden assumptions, stress-testing a decision, running a premortem, steelmanning an opposing view, applying five-whys root-cause analysis, reframing a question, doing first-principles decomposition, finding a double-crux, or deliberating an ambiguous open-ended choice. Especially applies to strategy, product direction, research design, architecture decisions, hiring calls, ethical tradeoffs, and any prompt where jumping straight to a solution would skip important questions. Trigger phrases include "help me think through", "should I", "what should we build", "what am I missing", "reframe this", "pre-mortem", "steelman", "assumption audit", "debug my thinking", "five whys", "stress-test this decision", "first principles".