Results for “thinking-blocks”

Cognitive enhancement toolkit combining non-linear reasoning, mental models, and literate programming. Use for complex analysis, system design, debugging, deep learning, and research workflows.

Simulates a multi-perspective deliberation council to explore complex questions, decisions, or creative challenges from diverse thinking archetypes.

Build a library of metacognitive prompts targeting planning, monitoring, or evaluation for a specific task. Use when developing students' thinking-about-thinking during independent work.

Generates a wide range of ideas and explores multiple approaches before converging on the most promising direction using a diverge-then-converge process.

Turns rough ideas into approved, decision-complete plans with validated structure before coding. Use when users ask in any language for planning, architecture, design direction, feasibility, value judgment, or whether a feature is worth doing before implementation. Not for bug fixes or small edits.

Provides creative problem-solving techniques for breaking through stuck points, including collision-zone thinking, inversion, pattern recognition, and simplification.

Run a Virtual Think Tank — a structured multi-persona debate — before planning or making architectural/design/strategic decisions. Use this skill whenever the user is about to plan a system, make a technology choice, evaluate trade-offs, decide on an approach, or faces any decision where multiple perspectives would sharpen the outcome. Also trigger when the user says "think tank", "debate this", "perspectives on", "trade-offs", "should I use X or Y", "help me decide", "before we plan", or asks for pros/cons of competing approaches. This skill should run BEFORE any implementation planning begins — it produces a structured analysis that feeds into better plans.

Provides structured techniques for breaking through stuck points in problem-solving, including collision-zone thinking, inversion, pattern recognition, and simplification.

Analyze complex systems through stocks, flows, and feedback loops to find high-leverage interventions. For organizational, environmental, social, and technical systems exhibiting circular causality. NOT for linear problems or simple cause-effect chains.

Script a teacher think-aloud demonstrating expert reasoning processes for a specific task. Use when modelling problem-solving, writing, reading comprehension, or analytical processes.

Use before any complex or ambiguous task where the path forward is unclear. For breaking down multi-step problems, choosing between approaches, clarifying vague requirements, identifying hidden assumptions, planning before building, and preventing costly mistakes from starting in the wrong direction. Activate when user says "how should I approach this", "what's the best way to", "I'm not sure how to", or presents a problem without a clear solution.

Identifies common creative thinking anti-patterns and provides detection methods and alternatives.

Guides researchers through structured ideation frameworks to discover high-impact research directions. Use when exploring new problem spaces, pivoting between projects, or seeking novel angles on existing work.

Designs new software features and multi-component changes for the current repo into implementation-ready BDD specs via autonomous codebase research, then commits the design for review (runs to completion without mid-design questions). Scope covers new features, greenfield design, and multi-component changes. Not for hardware/physical-system design, out-of-repo questions, single-file refactors, or known-root-cause bugs (those go to direct edits or systematic-debugging).

Convert input into clean, structured, hierarchical bullet points for summarization, note-taking, and structured thinking.

Add accessible animated AI loading and agent-status indicators with the React thinking-orbs library. Use when a chat, copilot, voice, search, generation, or tool-running interface needs a semantic working, searching, solving, listening, composing, or shaping state; when replacing a generic spinner with an AI activity orb; or when implementing the library's size, theme, speed, pause, reduced-motion, and canvas behavior.

Brain Dump Journaling

Guides a structured brainstorm that surfaces user ideas, explores directions, and produces a spec and report for later planning.

Refines ideas iteratively. Refine ideas through structured divergent and convergent thinking. Use "idea-refine" or "ideate" to trigger.

Guides a structured brainstorming session that surfaces user ideas, narrows options, and produces a spec file for later planning.

Forces unrelated concepts together to spark novel solutions and uncover emergent properties.

Simulates Bill Gates' cognitive framework, strategic thinking, and decision-making processes for analysis and problem-solving.

Applies cognitive science frameworks for creative thinking to CS and AI research ideation. Use when seeking genuinely novel research directions by leveraging combinatorial creativity, analogical reasoning, constraint manipulation, and other empirically grounded creative strategies.

Transforms unstructured streams of mixed thoughts, tasks, and ideas into a clean four-section actionable system with zero information loss.

Interactive idea refinement using Socratic method to develop fully-formed designs

Forces unrelated concepts together to spark novel solutions and emergent properties.

Guides researchers through structured ideation frameworks to discover high-impact research directions.

Layer 6 of the keyword research pipeline. Organizes the vetted keyword queue into money clusters (from clusters.md), picks each cluster's keystone vs supporting articles, tracks coverage, and PROPOSES new clusters from high-business-value topics or live products not yet covered — so the blog strategy expands as the company grows. Emits cluster-tagged queue + cluster-map.md + cluster-proposals.md.

Develops and maintains WordPress Gutenberg blocks with best practices for block.json, registration, attributes, dynamic rendering, deprecations, and build tooling.

Design a wise systems intervention from an existing analysis. Maps proposed actions against Meadows' leverage points, checks for unintended consequences, and generates alternatives.

Brainstorming Skill

Guides researchers through structured ideation frameworks to discover high-impact research directions. Use when exploring new problem spaces, pivoting between projects, or seeking novel angles on existing work.

Coordinates four reasoning skills and an agent for structured thinking, problem solving, creative ideation, and learning.

Design discipline-specific critical thinking tasks grounded in knowledge-contingent reasoning rather than generic skills. Use when embedding higher-order thinking into subject content.

Think like a human. Reason, plan, adapt, create, and know your limits.