A structured thinking framework that walks Claude through ten stages of deliberate cognition, from external observation and metacognition through first-principles analysis, lateral connections, intuition, intellectual humility, and iterative growth. You'd invoke this when facing non-trivial decisions like architecture choices, post-mortems, or release-blocking audits where skipping uncomfortable steps like bias logging or verdict calibration leads to brittle output. The discipline scales with irreversibility: overkill for typo fixes, essential for ambiguous multi-stakeholder tradeoffs. Honest take: the anti-sycophancy guardrails in stages 8 and 10 are the real value here, forcing you to tier findings accurately and document what to improve next cycle instead of just claiming victory and moving on.
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$ npx -y skills add agricidaniel/claude-obsidian --skill think --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
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Think
Use the ten stages as a loop of attention, not a ceremonial transcript. Scale the depth to novelty, stakes, uncertainty, and irreversibility. Keep the final reasoning summary concise and evidence-bearing.
This skill is read-only. It may inspect available evidence, but it does not edit files, execute a vault mutation, commit Git, or publish anything. If the CREATE stage recommends a change, compose with the appropriate mutation skill after the user authorizes that operation.
Establish an evidence frame
Before the loop, separate:
- Observed: directly supported by an input, source, test, or measurement.
- Inferred: a conclusion drawn from observations; state the bridge.
- Unknown: missing evidence that could change the decision.
- Preference: a user or designer choice, not a factual claim.
Attach citations or concrete locators when sources exist. Never fabricate a quotation, locator, test result, consensus, or confidence level.
The ten stages
1. OBSERVE: external
Read the actual inputs, current state, constraints, failures, and prior work. Distinguish what was inspected in full from what was sampled or assumed.
2. OBSERVE: internal
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- MIT
- First seen
- Jun 11, 2026
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