thinking
Thinking
Adjacent skills: thinking (explore, analyse, converge) -> recursive-thinking (adversarial stress-test) -> dream-thinking (retrospective learning).
Use thinking when the job is to move from ambiguity to a clear recommendation, experiment, or implementation-ready plan. Use it when exploration and convergence both matter in the same session. Do not escalate to recursive-thinking unless the decision is high-risk, contentious, or likely to hide important assumptions after a solid first pass here.
Core Cadence
Run the skill through one simple loop:
- understand what is stuck
- explore only enough to improve the decision
- name what matters
- choose what changes next
Everything else in this skill supports that loop.
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