Creative AI — Testing skill for Claude Code

think_out_of_the_box

Get ideas that sit outside the usual pile. Start a message with `box`:

box I can't stay consistent with studying

AI answers drift to the most common pattern, so the ideas arrive already averaged out. `think_out_of_the_box` makes the assistant show you the **obvious answers** first, clearly labelled and still available, and then up to three **answers out of the box** that break a hidden assumption in your problem. Each one comes with the cheapest way to test it.

What you get

**Problem:** Weekend sales have been flat for six months. Two staff, one small oven, HKD 3,000 a month.

## Obvious answers
1. Post on Instagram or Xiaohongshu, still the right call if you post under 3 times a week
2. Weekend only special item, still works if regulars say they are bored
3. Bundles or discounts, the right call if you throw away stock at close
   ... (8 in total, kept on purpose; some may be exactly right)

## Hidden assumptions
- Everything is baked in your oven and sold fresh on the same day.
- Customers arrive evenly through the day and find everything available.
- Price only goes down in tests, never up.

## Answers out of the box
### 1. Stretch: Raise the price, don't cut it
### 2. Leap: Sell unbaked, so the customer's appliance does the baking
### 3. Weird but testable: Sell a "showtime", not a shelf
  Each has: Idea / Move used / Assumption broken / Nearest obvious answer and how this differs /
  Cheapest test (under one week) / Biggest risk

Next? (go deeper on 1 / 2 / 3, make a week plan from one, pair one with an obvious answer, new problem, done)

The full run is in [`examples/bakery-flat-sales.md`](examples/bakery-flat-sales.md).

How it works

1. It lists the 5 to 8 obvious answers a thorough AI reply would give, and keeps them, labelled.
2. It names the hidden assumpti