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first-principles-thinking

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills (GitHub) · coding · 23 stars · scanned at commit 8a6a574

Use for first principles thinking, or when the user questions an inherited default: "why do we do it this way?", "is this cost really necessary?", "should we copy what competitors do?". Strips analogies and rebuilds from fundamentals. Skip for convention-following checklists.

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-thinking' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'first-principles-thinking' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named first-principles-thinking already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8a6a5745556e60706ac5fa889dcc66ccd3a875b0' -- 'skills/first-principles-thinking' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/first-principles-thinking' ~/.agents/skills/'first-principles-thinking' && 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-thinking' ~/.claude/skills/'first-principles-thinking' (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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