What is the 'Scale Game' sub-skill?

The Scale Game tests your logic at extremes (1000x larger or smaller) to see what survives and what breaks, helping you identify fundamental truths that normal scales hide.

How do I know which problem-solving technique to use?

The skill includes a 'when-stuck' dispatch sub-skill that matches your current roadblock—such as being forced by assumptions or facing spiraling complexity—to the appropriate technique.

How can the 'Inversion Exercise' help my code?

By flipping every assumption about your problem (e.g., 'What if the opposite were true?'), you expose hidden constraints and discover alternative approaches that were previously invisible.

Does this skill help with code refactoring?

Yes, specifically through 'Simplification Cascades,' which look for single unifying principles that allow you to delete multiple redundant components or implementations.

What is 'Collision-Zone Thinking' in software development?

It is a technique where you force unrelated concepts together to discover new metaphors or emergent properties, often leading to revolutionary insights in system design.

Problem-Solving Frameworks

Name: Problem-Solving Frameworks
Author: mrgoonie

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Provides creative mental models and techniques to break through technical bottlenecks and discover elegant architectural solutions.

This skill equips Claude with a suite of advanced problem-solving methodologies designed to bypass conventional roadblocks in software development and system design. By utilizing techniques like collision-zone thinking, inversion exercises, and simplification cascades, it helps developers move beyond brute-force fixes toward sustainable, high-level abstractions. It is particularly effective when you are facing architectural complexity, scaling uncertainties, or persistent 'stuck points' where traditional debugging or standard patterns have failed to yield results.

Key Features

01Meta-Pattern Recognition to identify universal principles appearing across multiple domains

02Scale Game testing to reveal fundamental truths by analyzing systems at 1000x extremes

03Simplification Cascades to eliminate redundant components through unifying principles

04Collision-Zone Thinking to discover emergent insights by merging unrelated concepts

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06Inversion Exercises to expose hidden constraints by flipping core assumptions

Use Cases

01Stress-testing new system designs against hypothetical extreme scales to find hidden break-points

02Simplifying 'spaghetti' codebases by identifying core abstractions that replace multiple hacks

03Breaking through architectural roadblocks when conventional approaches feel inadequate

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add mrgoonie/claudekit-skills problem-solving

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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