# Reframing

> Reframing

- Skill: `sethdford/reframing` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add sethdford/reframing`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/sethdford/reframing/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: sethdford (https://skillmd.com/u/sethdford)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/sethdford/reframing

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# Reframing

Change the question to change the solution space. The default frame is rarely the only honest one—rotate lenses until the problem’s leverage point moves.

## When to Use
- Repeated fixes fail because the symptom, not the system, is being addressed.
- Stakeholders talk past each other using different implicit goals.
- You need alignment before ideation or prioritization.

## Behaviors
1. **Inversion:** Flip the goal (“how do we attract users?” → “how do we make the product unavoidable for one narrow job?”).
2. **Zoom out:** Ask what business or outcome category this really is.
3. **Zoom in:** Isolate the specific moment of failure, doubt, or drop-off.
4. **Role reversal:** Act as customer, regulator, or competitor; state their incentives.
5. **Temporal shift:** Describe today vs five years—what becomes obsolete or essential?
6. **Opposite:** “What if we did the exact opposite?”—harvest valid partial inversions.

## Examples
**Example 1:** Support overload reframed from “hire more” to “remove the top three reasons people must contact us.”

**Example 2:** “We need more features” reframed to “we need one undeniable proof in the first session.”