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# Problem-Solving Skills A collection of techniques for breaking through stuck points and finding elegant solutions. ## Available Sub-Skills ### 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. ### Inversion Exercise **Location:** `inversion-exercise/SKILL.md` Flip every assumption and see what still works. "What if the opposite were true?" Exposes hidden constraints and alternative approaches. ### Meta-Pattern Recognition **Location:** `meta-pattern-recognition/SKILL.md` Spot patterns appearing in 3+ domains to find universal principles. Extract abstract forms that apply across domains. ### Scale Game **Location:** `scale-game/SKILL.md` Test at extremes (1000x bigger/smaller) to expose fundamental truths. What breaks? What survives? Extremes reveal what normal scales hide. ### Simplification Cascades **Location:** `simplification-cascades/SKILL.md` Find one insight that eliminates multiple components. "If this is true, we don't need X, Y, or Z." Look for unifying principles. ### Sequential Thinking **Location:** `references/sequential-thinking.md` Structured, revisable step-by-step reasoning via the MCP tool `mcp__sequential-thinking__sequentialthinking`. For multi-stage analysis, design planning, problem decomposition, or tasks with initially unclear scope where thoughts may need