think-question-burstlisted
Install: claude install-skill product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills
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# Question Burst
Stuck thinking is usually stuck on the wrong question. A question burst generates many questions about a problem in a short, constrained burst (questions only, no answers), to break attachment to the current framing, then ranks them and picks the single most catalytic one. Because a model can generate questions endlessly, the value here is not the generation, it is the **ranking and selection**: this skill produces a ranked set ending in one chosen next question, never a bulk dump. The output is that ranked question set.
## When to Use
- Stuck, or over-attached to a single framing of the problem.
- At the start of exploring an ambiguous problem, before committing to an answer.
- When a better question would unlock more than another answer.
## When NOT to Use
- To produce a bulk list of questions with no ranking or selection (low signal; the main failure mode for an AI).
- When the issue needs answers and convergence, not more questions.
- When the catalytic question is already known.
## Instructions
When asked to run a question burst, follow these steps:
1. **State the problem** in one line.
2. **Burst.** Generate roughly 12 to 20 questions about it. Questions only, no answers, no preamble. Mix angles: why, how, what-if, who, what-would-change-if. Keep it brief.
3. **Rank.** Order the questions by how much answering them would change the a