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Found 184 Skills
Run a structured 5-day process to prototype, test, and validate product ideas with real users. Use when the user mentions "design sprint", "validate in a week", "rapid prototype", "test with users", or "de-risk before building". Covers mapping, sketching, deciding, prototyping, and testing. For ongoing experimentation, see lean-startup. For customer job analysis, see jobs-to-be-done. Trigger with 'design', 'sprint'.
Apply Edward de Bono's parallel thinking framework (1985) to make better decisions by examining ideas from six distinct perspectives systematically. Use when: **Making complex decisions** that require multiple perspectives; **Evaluating new products, offers, or strategies** before launch; **Breaking out of analysis paralysis** with structured thinking; **Running productive meetings** where everyone thinks in the same direction; **Balancing optimism with caution** in strategic planning
Combine multiple mental models for richer analysis. Use for complex problems requiring multiple lenses, high-stakes decisions, or when single models leave blind spots.
Activate this when users need to understand extreme events (bubbles, crashes, mass hysteria, cults, mob behavior), diagnose systemic organizational failures, or assess the risk of multiple psychological/market/institutional forces aligning in the same direction. Typical trigger signals: the phenomenon described by the user "far exceeds what any single factor can explain"; the user attempts to explain an extreme outcome with a single cause; the user is concerned about "multiple adverse factors erupting simultaneously". Not applicable to conventional single-factor decision analysis or assessment of mild incremental changes.
Draft a structured decision memo for Ane. Use when the user asks for a "decision memo", "decision doc", "options paper", "recommendation brief", or equivalent. Produces a scannable document with context, options, recommendation, risks, and reversibility. Applies Ane's CLAUDE.md writing style automatically.
Adversarial thinking partner for founders and executives. Stress-tests plans, prepares for brutal board meetings, dissects decisions with no good options, and forces honest post-mortems. Use when you need someone to find the holes before the board does, make a decision you've been avoiding, or understand what actually went wrong.
Interview the user relentlessly to expand context and surface intent, constraints, hidden assumptions, and unstated alternatives. Use whenever the user invokes `/grill-me`, says "grill me", "interview me", "pressure-test this", "help me think through", or whenever the user's first message is more decision than task — across coding, business, marketing, personal branding, SOPs, systems thinking, process design, and tough decisions.
Use when you need to generate many creative options before systematically narrowing to the best choices. Invoke when exploring product ideas, solving open-ended problems, generating strategic alternatives, developing research questions, designing experiments, or when you need both breadth (many ideas) and rigor (principled selection). Use when user mentions brainstorming, ideation, divergent thinking, generating options, or evaluating alternatives.
Apply George Mack's High Agency approach to founder and leadership execution. Use when facing ambiguity, blockers, stalled execution, "impossible" constraints, cross-functional deadlock, or high-uncertainty decisions that require ownership and rapid action.
Guidance for asking clarifying questions when user requests are ambiguous, have multiple valid approaches, or require critical decisions. Use when implementation choices exist that could significantly affect outcomes.
Expert methodology for breaking down complex problems into fundamental truths and rebuilding solutions from the ground up. Use when users need breakthrough innovation (not incremental improvement), question industry assumptions, face seemingly impossible problems, want to understand root causes, ask "why does this have to be this way", "rethink from scratch", "reimagine this", request analysis "from first principles", want to challenge conventional wisdom, question everything, or need to deconstruct problems to their core elements. Ideal for strategic decisions, innovation challenges, cost optimization, and escaping local optima.
Guides technical decisions, architecture, and implementation. Use for tech choices, system design, API design, refactoring, or "how should I build this" questions.