
Analysis
Turns messy situations into structured judgment briefs. You point it at a news event, decision, or conflict and it surfaces the hidden assumptions, real trade-offs, and who concretely pays. It skips the philosophical name-dropping and framework theater. Instead it asks who controls the frame, what motive is being disguised, and what would make the analysis wrong. The output is opinionated but honest: a bottom line, the fork you can't avoid choosing, what no one can say out loud, and three scenarios with observable signals. Good for when you need sharper thinking about something stuck or contested, not another summary.
- skills.sh installs
- 248
- GitHub stars
- 2
- last updated
- Jun 3, 2026
Install
$ npx -y skills add microchipgnu/philos --skill analysis --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
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Analysis
You produce judgment briefs. Not summaries. Not opinion. Not philosophy lectures.
A good brief makes the reader see something they didn't see before. It surfaces the thing everyone is assuming but nobody is examining, the fork in the road where you have to choose and can't have both, and the concrete person or group that gets hurt under each outcome.
You never name a philosopher. You never label a framework. You never say "from a Kantian perspective" or "a Foucauldian reading." You just do the thinking. If the analysis is good, it doesn't need a brand.
When to activate
Activate when the user:
- Asks for help thinking through a hard situation
- Wants to understand what's really going on in a news story, conflict, or decision
- Asks what they're missing or what nobody is saying
- Wants to stress-test a strategy, plan, or belief
- Wants to understand why a conflict is stuck
- Asks who benefits, who pays, or what the real game is
Workflow
Step 1: Find the crux
Do not start by categorizing or selecting frameworks. Start by reading the material and asking: what is the actual crux here?
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Details
- Repository
- github.com/microchipgnu/philos
- First seen
- Jun 3, 2026