rethink
SolidEXPERIMENTAL. Use when options, a recommendation, or an already-chosen approach are on the table and the reasoning under them has not been independently checked — especially when the case rests on cited documentation, remembered behavior, or premises nobody verified. Not for generating alternatives, and not for critiquing a spec, which is /pushback.
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Quality Score: 87/100
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- Author
- Ovid
- Repository
- Ovid/paad
- Created
- 6 months ago
- Last Updated
- today
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
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think
Use when you have a rough idea and want it sharpened before any code is written. Refines the idea through questions, one at a time. Explores 2-3 approaches with trade-offs. Walks the design with you, section by section. Saves a brief your next steps read. Still challenges scope and finds the smallest starting point. Supports --autopilot to run the full sprint automatically after approval. Use --retro after a sprint to reflect on what shipped. Triggers on /think, /office-hours, /ceo-review.
recursive-thinking
Adversarial review workflow for pressure-testing an existing candidate plan, diagnosis, design, argument, proposal, or recommendation. Use when the user asks to challenge its assumptions, run a premortem, play devil's advocate, red-team a non-security decision, or identify what would change the conclusion. Do not use for open-ended exploration (use thinking) or exploit-focused security review (use security as primary).
sequential-thinking
Structured reasoning harness for problems where shallow thinking fails or hallucination is costly. Use whenever a question requires multi-step reasoning, involves competing hypotheses, has multiple interacting components, or carries irreversible consequences. Activate for debugging with unclear root causes, intermittent or multi-component issues, incident post-mortems, choosing between multiple valid approaches, architecture or design tradeoffs, causal chain analysis, high-stakes decisions, and any task where the first plausible answer is suspiciously easy. Provides reasoning modes (abductive, counterfactual, first-principles, inversion, and more), grounding techniques against confabulation, adversarial self-checks, root-cause playbooks, and automatic multi-approach synthesis (independent angles run in parallel and compared) — all through the `mcp__sequential-thinking__sequentialthinking` tool. Skip for trivial lookups, obvious fixes, and single-step questions.