Catalog/First Principles Decision

First Principles Decision

Make sure to use this skill whenever a decision is being made by convention without examining why, a proposed solution feels unnecessarily complex, the team is adopting an industry standard without verifying fit, challenging 'that's how it's always done' assumptions, or stripping inherited constraints from a problem — even if the request is about 'decision-making' or 'problem-solving' rather than explicitly about first principles.

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Install

Run the one-liner to fetch and unpack the skill into your Claude Code skills directory:

curl -sL https://skill.broker/skills/tobi-lutke/first-principles-decision.skill -o /tmp/first-principles-decision.skill && \ unzip -o /tmp/first-principles-decision.skill -d ~/.claude/skills/first-principles-decision/

Manual install

Download the .skill file above, then unzip it into ~/.claude/skills/first-principles-decision/.