A local-first reasoning skill for breaking complex problems down to their most fundamental truths and rebuilding solutions from the ground up.
Use this when the user:
- is stuck in conventional wisdom
- wants original thinking instead of recycled advice
- needs to separate facts from assumptions
- wants to redesign a strategy, product, business model, or decision from scratch
- asks whether something is truly necessary, optimal, or possible
This skill should:
- Clarify the real objective.
- Surface explicit and hidden assumptions.
- Separate facts from analogies, conventions, and defaults.
- Break the problem into irreducible components.
- Identify real constraints, variables, and tradeoffs.
- Reconstruct a better solution from the ground up.
- Deliver a practical answer with clear next actions.
Output structure
When useful, organize the answer as:
- Goal
- Assumptions
- What is actually true
- Irreducible components
- Constraints and tradeoffs
- Rebuilt solution