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thinking-first-principles
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When a constraint is treated as fixed, separate physics from convention, keep only independently supported primitives, and rebuild the simplest solution that satisfies real constraints.
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 1,656 stars are split between them (about 166 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 67/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 7b8fece345df, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
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| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onethinking-first-principles tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills · Skill | 67 | ★ 1.7k | ≈53 always | 3mo ago |
| first-principles-thinking mindfold-ai/Trellis · Skill Both about thinking and principle | 75 | ★ 15k | ≈27 always | 1mo ago |
| first-principles-review sno-ai/sno-station-skills · Skill Both about principle | 68 | ★ 468 | ≈54 always | 17d ago |
| gemini-thinking-protocol kennyzir/7deer_skills · Skill Both about thinking and principle | 61 | ★ 326 | ≈28 always | 1mo ago |
| design-thinking tronghieu/agent-skills · Skill Both about thinking | 60 | ★ 84 | ≈22 always | 17d ago |
| coding-principles shinpr/claude-code-workflows · Skill Both about principle | 68 | ★ 703 | ≈44 always | 16d ago |