Thinking Skills

Agent skills for better judgment and decision-making.

Skills that help you think better. Turn books into tools your agent can use. Catch cognitive biases before they derail decisions. Plan your year with systems that actually stick.

Installation

Install all skills:

npx skills add rohanpatriot/thinking-skills

Install specific skills:

npx skills add rohanpatriot/thinking-skills --skill book-to-skill decision-auditor habits-and-goals

Test locally:

npx skills add ./path/to/thinking-skills

Skills Overview

Skill	Description
book-to-skill	Turn any book into a reusable skill with frameworks and workflows
decision-auditor	Catch blind spots in your decisions before you commit
habits-and-goals	Plan your year and build habits that stick

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book-to-skill

Turn any book into a skill your agent can use. Extract the frameworks, techniques, and mental models into structured workflows.

npx skills add rohanpatriot/thinking-skills --skill book-to-skill

Use when:

• You've read a book with useful frameworks and want to use them consistently
• You want to extract actionable techniques from written material
• You're building a library of thinking tools from books you trust

What you get:

• Complete skill directory with SKILL.md, workflows, and references
• Extracted frameworks organized by type (mental models, techniques, checklists)
• Ready-to-use workflows that apply the book's ideas

Workflows:

• Convert Book - Full conversion from .txt to complete skill
• Analyze Book - Extract frameworks without generating skill files
• Generate Skill - Create skill from prior analysis
• Convert Formats - Convert epub, pdf, mobi, docx to .txt (requires Calibre/Poppler)

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decision-auditor

Catch blind spots in your decisions before you commit. Based on Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

npx skills add rohanpatriot/thinking-skills --skill decision-auditor

Use when:

• You're about to make a big decision and want a sanity check
• A plan feels solid but something seems off
• You're stuck between options and can't see clearly
• You want to stress-test a plan before committing

What you get:

• Bias Check: Systematic scan identifying cognitive biases affecting your judgment
• Premortem: Failure scenarios with mitigations before you start
• Reframe: Your decision restated to reveal hidden assumptions

Workflows:

• Bias Check - Systematic scan for common cognitive biases
• Premortem - Imagine failure to identify threats before they materialize
• Reframe - Change how a decision is framed to reveal hidden assumptions

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habits-and-goals

Plan your year and build habits that stick. Based on Sahil Bloom's Annual Planning Guide.

npx skills add rohanpatriot/thinking-skills --skill habits-and-goals

Use when:

• Starting a new year and want a system for your goals
• A big goal feels overwhelming and needs breaking down
• You want monthly check-ins to stay on track
• You keep setting goals but struggle to maintain habits

What you get:

• Annual Plan: Big Goals, Checkpoints, Daily Systems, and Anti-Goals
• Goal Decomposition: Any goal broken into daily actions with ABC flexibility
• Monthly Check-in: Three questions to catch drift before it compounds

Workflows:

• Annual Planning - Full year planning session with Big Goals, Checkpoints, Daily Systems, Anti-Goals
• Goal Decomposition - Break down a single Big Goal into actionable components
• Monthly Check-in - Three-question review to catch drift early

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License

MIT License - See LICENSE for details.