Claude Code skill (context injection) · awesome-skills/first-principles-skill
First Principles Thinking
Applies a five-phase method to identify a problem’s essence, challenge assumptions, establish ground truths, reason upward, and validate the result in a structured analysis.
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SKILL.mdInvocation
Ask Claude Code to “analyze from first principles,” “think from scratch,” “question this design,” “challenge assumptions,” or use a documented Chinese equivalent such as “第一性原理.”
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Automatically triggers for the documented English or Chinese phrases and for requests to evaluate architecture, design choices, or problem-solving approaches without relying on analogy or convention.
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awesome-skills/first-principles-skill
MIT-licensed Claude Code skill, version 0.2.0, that injects a five-phase first-principles method for defining a problem, challenging assumptions, establishing ground truths, reasoning upward, and validating a structured recommendation.