Six Thinking Hats — Development skill for Claude Code
Edward de Bono's parallel thinking framework.
How to install Six Thinking Hats
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/thejoseplatero-second-brain-starter-kit-six-thinking-hats/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/thejoseplatero-second-brain-starter-kit-six-thinking-hats && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thejoseplatero/second-brain-starter-kit/HEAD/skills/six-thinking-hats.md -o ~/.claude/skills/thejoseplatero-second-brain-starter-kit-six-thinking-hats/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Six Thinking Hats does
name: six-thinking-hats description: Edward de Bono's parallel thinking framework. Run any problem, decision, or idea through all six hats for a complete 360-degree view, or call a single hat when you need one specific mode.
Six Thinking Hats
Edward de Bono's framework for parallel thinking. Instead of arguing from fixed positions, every thinker wears the same hat at the same time and thinks in the same direction. The hats separate the modes. Facts stay separate from feelings. Risks
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Read-only de Bono six thinking hats on a decision or artifact. Select explicitly with @agent-six-hats.
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