first-principles-thinking
Use when the user wants to challenge assumptions, break down a complex problem from scratch, or approach something with first principles reasoning. Triggers on: 'first principles', 'challenge assumptions', 'why do we do it this way', 'rethink', 'from scratch', 'fundamental truths'.
- Compatibility
- claude-code codex opencode
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Experimental field. Support varies between clients, so this list is what the author declared, not what your client will enforce.
- Read
- Grep
- Glob
- WebFetch
- WebSearch
Files
- skills/first-principles-thinking/SKILL.md
- skills/first-principles-thinking/README.md
- skills/first-principles-thinking/agents/openai.yaml
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