Lateral Thinking

Generate novel, testable ideas by finding mechanisms that transfer across fields.

Adapted from ogiberstein/lateral-thinking-skill, with a repo-native rewrite for portability and clearer boundaries with nearby skills.

Use this skill when ordinary analysis is already exhausted and the user needs a good second or third lens, not a recap of the obvious first one.

When To Use It

Trigger on requests like:

• "What are we missing?"
• "Go deeper"
• "Think laterally"
• "Think cross-domain"
• "We keep trying the obvious fixes and nothing changes"