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ultrathink-protocol

97 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By bmad-labs/skills (GitHub) · other · 19 stars · scanned at commit c636fe5

Root-cause investigation protocol for live, complex or multi-layer technical problems. Use when a problem has resisted two or more fix attempts, the root cause is unknown or assumed, you are about to retry a variation of a failed fix, or the user says "ultrathink protocol", "think deeper", "figure out why", "stop guessing", "find the root cause", or "it's still broken after your fix". Also use proactively when about to write a fix before the cause is verified. Once the incident is resolved and …

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'ultrathink-protocol' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'ultrathink-protocol' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named ultrathink-protocol already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/bmad-labs/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'c636fe5b40f0f6a5fb1fd3a14e7735bd2428eef5' -- 'skills/ultrathink-protocol' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/ultrathink-protocol' ~/.agents/skills/'ultrathink-protocol' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'ultrathink-protocol' ~/.claude/skills/'ultrathink-protocol' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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