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title: "problem-solving"
description: "Problem-solving and ideation skills for brainstorming, strategic reasoning, business planning, estimation, and adversarial thinking."
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/problem-solving
last-updated: 2026-09-16
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# problem-solving
Problem-solving and ideation skills for brainstorming, strategic reasoning, business planning, estimation, and adversarial thinking.
- Slug: problem-solving
- Publisher: Jordan Sweeting
- Repository: https://github.com/slurpyb/skills
- Manifest: wip/plugins/problem-solving/plugin.json
- Version: 1.0.0
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 13 (blue-ocean-strategy, brainstorm-frameworks, business-planning, council, crossing-the-chasm, fermi-estimation, iterating-code, pragmatic-programmer, problem-solving, product-improvement-proposal, santa-method, the-fool, thinking)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 0
- Repository created: 2026-02-03
- Repository last pushed: 2026-09-15
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/problem-solving
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## Skills

- blue-ocean-strategy: Create uncontested market space using value innovation instead of competing head-to-head. Use when the user mentions "blue ocean", "red ocean", "strategy canvas", "ERRC framework", "value innovation", "non-customers", "buyer utility map", "eliminate-reduce-raise-create", or "uncontested market". Al…
- brainstorm-frameworks: Use this skill whenever the user asks for brainstorming, ideation, concept expansion, service improvement ideas, strategy options, workshop structure, or says thinking is stuck and needs more perspectives. Select and apply one or more brainstorming frameworks based on the user's goal, solo vs group…
- business-planning: Use this skill whenever the user asks to create, structure, review, or refine a business plan, new business proposal, growth strategy, GTM outline, or venture hypothesis. Build a rational, persuasive business plan with reader-specific framing and bottom-up numerical planning. Distinguish researched…
- council: Convene a four-voice council for ambiguous decisions, tradeoffs, and go/no-go calls. Use when multiple valid paths exist and you need structured disagreement before choosing.
- crossing-the-chasm: Navigate the technology adoption lifecycle from early adopters to mainstream market. Use when the user mentions "crossing the chasm", "beachhead segment", "whole product", "early adopters vs. mainstream", "tech go-to-market", "bowling pin strategy", "technology adoption lifecycle", or "pragmatist b…
- fermi-estimation: Solve user questions with defensible Fermi estimates using explicit assumptions, source-backed inputs, uncertainty ranges, and sensitivity analysis. Use when exact data is unavailable or too slow to collect but the user still needs a quantitative answer for counts, market size, demand, costs, reven…
- iterating-code: Explore complex, multi-faceted topics requiring deep understanding through a three-round iterative strategy with parallel subagents.
- pragmatic-programmer: Apply meta-principles of software craftsmanship: DRY, orthogonality, tracer bullets, and design by contract. Use when the user mentions "best practices", "pragmatic approach", "broken windows", "tracer bullet", "software craftsmanship", "technical debt prevention", "prototype vs tracer bullet", or…
- problem-solving: Apply systematic problem-solving techniques for marketing challenges including campaign complexity (simplification cascades), creative blocks (collision-zone thinking), recurring campaign patterns (meta-pattern recognition), assumption constraints (inversion exercise), audience scale uncertainty (s…
- product-improvement-proposal: Propose concrete, high-leverage product/UX improvements to increase a software project's appeal and retention. Use when asked to generate product improvement proposals, UX ideas, onboarding/doc improvements, packaging/pricing positioning suggestions grounded in repo evidence, and prioritized MVP pl…
- santa-method: Multi-agent adversarial verification with convergence loop. Two independent review agents must both pass before output ships.
- the-fool: Use when challenging ideas, plans, decisions, or proposals. Invoke to play devil's advocate, run a pre-mortem, red team, stress test assumptions, audit evidence quality, or find blind spots before committing. Do NOT use for building plans, making decisions, or generating solutions, this skill only…
- thinking

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.