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first-principles

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By ccomkhj/skills (GitHub) · productivity · 10 stars · scanned at commit 513f92c

Clarify a problem before planning through a brief, source-backed interview. Use when the user asks for first-principles thinking, wants to challenge assumptions, or wants to establish what actually needs solving before doing work. Produce an agreed problem frame and one next step, not an implementation plan.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'first-principles' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'first-principles' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named first-principles already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/ccomkhj/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '513f92c027ea9285eccba656777f703c49d1017c' -- 'first-principles' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'first-principles' ~/.agents/skills/'first-principles' && 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/'first-principles' ~/.claude/skills/'first-principles' (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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