AI Agent Skills (Thinking)
Structured thinking skills: hats, frameworks, decision support
About
A curated collection of cognitive workflows that upgrades an agent from a code generator into a thinking partner: six thinking hats, critical/systems/creative/strategic/analytical/lateral thinking, design thinking, first-principles, ethical thinking, plus decision tools like SWOT, trade-off analysis, prioritization, pre-mortem, five whys, and Fermi estimation. Each skill is standalone with a light path for small questions, and a thinking-method-selector picks a method when you are unsure. The strength is a rare thinking-framework pack with releases, CI validation, and native installs for 16+ harnesses. The limitation: cognitive frameworks only — no coding skills — and 13 stars means limited community vetting.
What it can do
- six-thinking-hats for parallel thinking
- critical, systems, creative, strategic, analytical, lateral thinking
- design thinking and first-principles thinking
- ethical-thinking for values and harm scans
- Decision tools: SWOT, trade-off analysis, prioritization, pre-mortem, five whys, Fermi estimation
- thinking-method-selector auto-picks a method
- Native installs for 16+ harnesses
- CI-validated skills
Setup
npx skills add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills
Single skill: npx skills add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills --skill six-thinking-hats
Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills, then /plugin install six-thinking-hats@ai-agent-skills
GitHub CLI: gh skill install ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills
Gemini CLI: gemini extensions install https://github.com/ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills
Prerequisites
None; the gh skill path needs GitHub CLI v2.90.0+
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: 88 commits, 5 releases, CI validation and per-harness docs; thinking-framework-only scope and 13 stars keep it mid-tier. License: MIT.
★ 13 GitHub stars
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 4.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 8.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 9.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 9.0/10
- · 88 commits, 5 releases, CI validation and per-harness docs; thinking-framework-only scope and 13 stars keep it mid-tier
Sources
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