Generative Thinking — One Move, Committed

Fixation is the default state. When a generator (human or LLM) has been working on a problem, attention concentrates on the current framing and subsequent ideas tend to be local variations on it. This skill is the interrupt: spend one move stepping sideways, then resume.

The discipline matters more than the move. Pick ONE technique per invocation, run it without second-guessing, and produce explicit reframings or candidate entry points — not a brainstorm list in the same frame.

When to reach for this

Claude activates this skill when:

• The last 2+ iterations are variations of one idea (fixation signal)
• The user says "widen this", "think bigger", "I'm stuck", "what am I missing", "too narrow", "break out of"
• A problem is framed as a binary ("X or Y") and neither option is good
• An agent loop is producing convergent variations — suspect the frame, not the search depth
• The user explicitly wants a pre-mortem on the framing (not the plan) before committing

Do NOT activate this skill as a default before every consequential task — fixation is the trigger, not stakes. If the current frame is working, let it work.

Core discipline