generative-thinking

# Generative Thinking — One Move, Committed Fixation is the default state. When a generator (human or LLM) has been working on a problem, attention concentrates on the current framing and subsequent ideas tend to be local variations on it. This skill is the interrupt: spend one move stepping sideways, then resume. The discipline matters more than the move. Pick ONE technique per invocation, run it without second-guessing, and produce explicit reframings or candidate entry points — not a brainstorm list in the same frame. ## When to reach for this Claude activates this skill when: - The last 2+ iterations are variations of one idea (fixation signal) - The user says "widen this", "think bigger", "I'm stuck", "what am I missing", "too narrow", "break out of" - A problem is framed as a binary ("X or Y") and neither option is good - An agent loop is producing convergent variations — suspect the frame, not the search depth - The user explicitly wants a pre-mortem on the *framing* (not the plan) before committing Do NOT activate this skill as a default before every consequential task — fixation is the trigger, not stakes. If the current frame is working, let it work. ## Core discipline Three rules that apply across every move below. Violations make the output ideation-flavored but structurally identical to what came before. 1. **Generation before evaluation.** De Bono's core distinction: lateral thinking cares about *movement value*, not truth value. A provocation is not a p...