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28 eval-informed mental models and critical-thinking skills for Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and other Agent Skills-compatible tools
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28 eval-informed mental models and critical-thinking skills for Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and other Agent Skills-compatible tools
28 eval-informed mental models and critical-thinking skills for Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and other Agent Skills-compatible tools
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28 Mental Models and Critical-Thinking Frameworks for Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and other Agent Skills-compatible tools
Claude Code Thinking Skills is a portable Agent Skills catalog of 28 mental-model and critical-thinking frameworks for decisions, debugging, systems, risk, and strategy. It originated for Claude Code and now works across GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and other compatible agents. Each skill packages a proven thinking framework — from first-principles reasoning to the theory of constraints — into a skill an agent can invoke by name, and the whole collection is backed by a transparent, replication-gated evaluation pipeline.
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| What it is | A portable Agent Skills library of 28 mental-model and critical-thinking frameworks. |
| Who it's for | Engineers, founders, and analysts who want compatible AI agents to reason with structured frameworks instead of ad- |
# Claude Code Thinking Skills > **28 Mental Models and Critical-Thinking Frameworks for Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and other Agent Skills-compatible tools** **Claude Code Thinking Skills is a portable [Agent Skills](https://agentskills.io) catalog of 28 mental-model and critical-thinking frameworks for decisions, debugging, systems, risk, and strategy.** It originated for Claude Code and now works across GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and other compatible agents. Each skill packages a proven thinking framework — from first-principles reasoning to the theory of constraints — into a skill an agent can invoke by name, and the whole collection is backed by a transparent, replication-gated evaluation pipeline. [](https://github.com/tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills) [](https://agentskills.io) [](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) [](https://github.com/tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills)  ## TL;DR — At a Glance | | | |---|---| | **What it is** | A portable Agent Skills library of 28 mental-model and critical-thinking frameworks. | | **Who it's for** | Engineers, founders, and analysts who want compatible AI agents to reason with structured frameworks instead of ad-
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