Mental Models

Apply 98 cognitive frameworks from multiple disciplines to analyze problems, make decisions, and think more clearly.

This skill is backed by the mental-models CLI — a single command that does model selection, lookup, and structured application. The CLI is the fast path; the fallback is reading files directly. Both work. Prefer the CLI.

When to Activate

• User names a specific model ("apply inversion", "use bottlenecks")
• User asks "help me think through X" or "what model fits X"
• User requests decision analysis, trade-off evaluation, or structured reasoning
• User describes a complex/ambiguous problem and wants a framework

Preflight: is the CLI available?

Run once per session: