A curated collection of cognitive workflows designed to upgrade your AI agents from simple code generators into strong collaborators for decision support, brainstorming, and structured thinking. Compatible with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Antigravity, OpenClaw, and any tool that supports the same specification.
Most coding assistants default to quick answers. Instead of one-off mega-prompts, this repository provides modular SKILL.md packs from the Agent Skills open standard—reusable frameworks for trade-offs, architectural choices, ideation, and explicit thinking in your agent's loop, grouped into three pillars:
- Thinking lenses: Six Thinking Hats; critical, systems, creative, strategic, analytical, and lateral thinking; design thinking; first-principles thinking; ethical reasoning.
- Decision support: Structured trade-off analysis, synthesis, and evaluation passes.
- Brainstorming and critique: Facilitation-style sequences for ideation and review (including adversarial angles where a skill calls for it).
| Name | Description | Registry |
|---|---|---|
six-thinking-hats |
Use when the user asks for Six Thinking Hats, parallel thinking, or Edward de Bono (naming or directing use/apply/run with typos is decisive), or wants sequential six-hat facilitation: facts, feelings, risks, benefits, new ideas, then synthesis for decisions and brainstorms. |  |
critical-thinking |
Use when the user asks for critical thinking (naming or directing use/apply/run with typos is decisive), or wants claim and argument audit: assumptions, evidence, logic gaps, bias and fallacy scan, red team, devil's advocate, epistemic calibration. | |
systems-thinking |
Use when the user asks for systems thinking (naming or directing use/apply/run with typos is decisive), or wants feedback loops, delays, stocks and flows, leverage points, unintended consequences, and holistic propagation across teams, products, and policies. | |
creative-thinking |
Use when the user asks for creative thinking (naming or directing use/apply/run with typos is decisive), or wants divergent ideation: fluency, reframes, novel combinations, blue-sky variety, optional light convergence before commitment. | |
strategic-thinking |
Use when the user asks for strategic thinking (naming or directing use/apply/run with typos is decisive), or wants bets under constraints: where to play, how to win, roadmap narrative, tradeoffs, risks, portfolio prioritization, sequenced path. | |
analytical-thinking |
Use when the user asks for analytical thinking (naming or directing use/apply/run with typos is decisive), or wants structured breakdown: hypotheses, metrics, evidence, MECE-ish trees, decision tables, explicit uncertainty in synthesis. | |
lateral-thinking |
Use when the user asks for lateral thinking (naming or directing use/apply/run with typos is decisive), or wants provocations, concept fans, challenge questions, reframes to escape local optima when ideation stalls or feels incremental. | |
design-thinking |
Use when the user asks for design thinking (naming or directing use/apply/run with typos is decisive), or wants human-centered discovery: empathize, define POV and HMW, ideate, low-fi prototype intent, falsifiable test plan for HCD and UX sprints. | |
first-principles-thinking |
Use when the user asks for first-principles thinking or first principles (naming or directing use/apply/run with typos is decisive), or wants to strip analogies, tag fundamentals, rebuild logic from bedrock, challenge defaults, sanity-check copycat strategies. | |
ethical-thinking |
Use when the user asks for ethical thinking (naming or directing use/apply/run with typos is decisive), or wants values, harms, benefits, power asymmetry, justice, consent, fair process—moral review, AI and data ethics, stakeholder harm scans beyond legality. | |
Install via the skills.sh CLI (npx skills). It installs skills into each agent’s directory and works across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Antigravity, OpenClaw, GitHub Copilot, and many more.
# Install all skills from this repo
npx skills add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills
# List available skills
npx skills add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills --list
# Or install individual skills (--skill names match plugin / directory names)
npx skills add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills --skill six-thinking-hats
npx skills add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills --skill critical-thinking
npx skills add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills --skill systems-thinking
npx skills add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills --skill creative-thinking
npx skills add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills --skill strategic-thinking
npx skills add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills --skill analytical-thinking
npx skills add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills --skill lateral-thinking
npx skills add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills --skill design-thinking
npx skills add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills --skill first-principles-thinking
npx skills add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills --skill ethical-thinkingInstall via GitHub CLI Agent Skills support (gh skill). Requires GitHub CLI v2.90.0 or later.
# Browse this repo's skills interactively
gh skill install ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills
# Install specific skills directly
gh skill install ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills six-thinking-hats
gh skill install ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills critical-thinking
gh skill install ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills systems-thinking
gh skill install ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills creative-thinking
gh skill install ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills strategic-thinking
gh skill install ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills analytical-thinking
gh skill install ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills lateral-thinking
gh skill install ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills design-thinking
gh skill install ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills first-principles-thinking
gh skill install ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills ethical-thinking
# Target a specific host and scope when needed
gh skill install ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills critical-thinking --agent codex --scope usergh skill installs to the correct skill directory for the selected host, including GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI.
# Add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills
# Update marketplace
/plugin marketplace update ai-agent-skills
# Install plugin(s) from the catalog
/plugin install six-thinking-hats@ai-agent-skills
/plugin install critical-thinking@ai-agent-skills
/plugin install systems-thinking@ai-agent-skills
/plugin install creative-thinking@ai-agent-skills
/plugin install strategic-thinking@ai-agent-skills
/plugin install analytical-thinking@ai-agent-skills
/plugin install lateral-thinking@ai-agent-skills
/plugin install design-thinking@ai-agent-skills
/plugin install first-principles-thinking@ai-agent-skills
/plugin install ethical-thinking@ai-agent-skillsCall skills directly with /skill-name, or describe your goal and the agent will infer the best match.
/six-thinking-hats Pizza or pasta for dinner?
Use Six Thinking Hats for pizza or pasta for dinner.
See CHANGELOG for release history.
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