Problem Solving

This is a meta-cognitive toolkit for when you're genuinely stuck, not just slightly confused. It routes you to six specific techniques: collision-zone thinking forces unrelated concepts together for emergent insights, inversion flips your assumptions, meta-pattern recognition spots principles across domains, scale game tests at extremes, and simplification cascades find the one insight that eliminates multiple components. The dispatch table is smart, matching stuck-types to techniques. It's opinionated about elegance over complexity, which means it won't help if you just need to grind through implementation details. Best for architects and senior devs who've hit a wall on design problems.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add mrgoonie/claudekit-skills --skill problem-solving --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Problem-Solving Skills

A collection of techniques for breaking through stuck points and finding elegant solutions.

Available Sub-Skills

When Stuck (Dispatch)

Location: when-stuck/SKILL.md

Start here when stuck. Matches your stuck-type to the right technique. Quick dispatch table for routing to the appropriate sub-skill.

Collision-Zone Thinking

Location: collision-zone-thinking/SKILL.md

Force unrelated concepts together to discover emergent properties. "What if we treated X like Y?" Revolutionary insights come from deliberate metaphor-mixing.