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cc-thinking-skills agent skills by tjboudreaux
28 skills from tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills are listed in the directory, in productivity and knowledge work. 7 skills have a full page with install steps and a pre-install summary.
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| Publisher | tjboudreaux |
|---|---|
| Repository | github.com/tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills |
| Listed skills | 28 |
| Security scan | Not scanned |
| Categories | Productivity and Knowledge Work |
| License | MIT |
| Last commit | August 7, 2026 |
| Install every skill | npx skills add https://github.com/tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills |
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Skills in tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills
Linked names open the skill's directory page; the rest open the skill folder on GitHub. Descriptions on rows without a page are quoted from each SKILL.md.
| Skill | Category | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| thinking-bounded-rationality 72/100 · C | Productivity | Sets an explicit good-enough threshold before an open-ended search or investigation, then stops at the first option that clears it. |
| thinking-circle-of-competence 72/100 · C | Productivity | Checks the evidence boundary for a claim that may lack grounding, sizes the cost of being wrong, then decides to answer, fetch, or abstain. |
| thinking-kepner-tregoe 74/100 · C | Productivity | Applies IS/IS-NOT difference analysis to selective defects, and must/want weighting with adverse-consequence comparison to consequential option choices. |
| thinking-lindy-effect 74/100 · C | Productivity | Treats the survival duration of a non-perishable option as a remaining-life prior, then checks for domain drift before favoring the proven option. |
| thinking-ooda 74/100 · C | Productivity | Cycles through Observe, Orient, Decide, Act on about 70% confidence under time pressure, then re-observes, when the situation is still changing. |
| thinking-probabilistic 77/100 · C | Productivity | Guides forecasting, estimating, and risk sizing by anchoring on base rates, giving ranges, and updating prior to posterior on evidence. |
| thinking-via-negativa 74/100 · C | Productivity | Prefers removing harmful or nonessential elements before adding a feature, layer, or process, with an irreversibility guard before deletion. |
| thinking-cynefin 64/100 · D | Productivity | When the right response mode is unclear, classify the cause-effect domain first; decompose disorder. |
| thinking-effectuation 69/100 · D | Productivity | Under genuine uncertainty with no reliable forecast, inventory means, cap downside at affordable loss, act for commitments, and let goals emerge… |
| thinking-first-principles 66/100 · D | Productivity | When a constraint is treated as fixed, separate physics from convention, keep only independently supported primitives, and rebuild the simplest… |
| thinking-five-whys-plus 69/100 · D | Productivity | When a fault is localized and the proximate cause is known but the systemic root is not, chain evidence-linked whys with a counterfactual stop and a… |
| thinking-jobs-to-be-done 69/100 · D | Productivity | Deciding what to build or why adoption fails. Recover the progress users hire a solution for under a circumstance, then rank by outcome and… |
| thinking-map-territory 66/100 · D | Productivity | When a claim, doc, test, metric, or assumption conflicts with observed behavior, stop theorizing from the map and verify the live code or data; let… |
| thinking-margin-of-safety 66/100 · D | Productivity | When provisioning, setting a limit, or committing an estimate under uncertainty, size a buffer to residual error and the cost of breach—not to the… |
| thinking-model-combination 66/100 · D | Productivity | When one mental model leaves a material blind spot on a multi-domain or high-stakes problem, sequence complementary models with named roles and a… |
| thinking-model-router 67/100 · D | Productivity | When unsure which thinking skill fits, map domain and problem type, then return NONE or one primary skill by default (at most three complementary). |
| thinking-opportunity-cost 69/100 · D | Productivity | Before committing scarce time, people, or money, name the best forgone use of those resources and the value delta of the chosen path versus that… |
| thinking-pre-mortem 69/100 · D | Productivity | Before committing to a plan or launch, assume it already failed and reason backward through concrete causes — convert failure paths into… |
| thinking-red-team 69/100 · D | Productivity | For authorized security review of code, auth, or APIs you control, model the attacker, map the attack surface, and report only findings with a… |
| thinking-reversibility 64/100 · D | Productivity | Before heavy deliberation, classify the decision as cheap or costly to undo; decide two-way doors fast and stage one-way doors to preserve options. |
| thinking-scientific-method 69/100 · D | Productivity | When a symptom has several plausible causes, rank falsifiable hypotheses and run the cheapest discriminating observation first; prefer… |
| thinking-second-order 64/100 · D | Productivity | When a change has effects past the immediate fix—incentives, scale, feedback—trace consequence chains with timing and probability before committing. |
| thinking-socratic 72/100 · C | Productivity | When a request is vague, assumption-laden, or "obvious," ask the few load-bearing questions that expose hidden requirements before building or… |
| thinking-steel-manning 64/100 · D | Productivity | Before rejecting a proposal or reflexively agreeing, build the strongest faithful opposing case, state agreement conditions, then update or reaffirm. |
| thinking-systems 69/100 · D | Productivity | When behavior is emergent across components—fixes elsewhere break, loops/delays dominate—map boundary, stocks/flows, feedback, archetypes, then rank… |
| thinking-theory-of-constraints 66/100 · D | Productivity | When throughput or latency is pipeline-limited, identify the single binding constraint and exploit, subordinate, elevate, then recheck—ignore… |
| thinking-thought-experiment 69/100 · D | Productivity | When a real test is too rare, large, or irreversible, run a controlled counterfactual: isolate one variable, fix conditions, trace the mechanistic… |
| thinking-triz 66/100 · D | Productivity | When two design requirements seem mutually exclusive, name the contradiction, separate conflicting states, then invent a concrete no-compromise… |
Where this repository is cited
tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills appears in 2 curated lists: VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills, hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code.