First Principles

Use this skill to replace analogy-driven reasoning with bottom-up reasoning.

Do not begin with industry norms, inherited best practices, competitor patterns, or legacy workflows unless the user explicitly asks for conventional guidance. Start from the user's real goal, expose assumptions, reduce the problem to basic facts and constraints, then rebuild the answer from there.

This skill is for practical reasoning, not abstract philosophy. End with a recommendation, prioritization, or testable next step.

Core objective

Produce answers that:

1. identify the real goal
2. expose explicit and hidden assumptions
3. separate hard constraints from soft constraints
4. reduce the problem to fundamental facts
5. rebuild from first principles where justified
6. land on an actionable result