abstraction-ladder

$npx mdskill add yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/abstraction-ladder

Decompose concepts into multiple abstraction levels to identify collision opportunities

  • Solves tasks requiring multi-level conceptual analysis and creative synthesis
  • Uses subagent execution for focused, systematic abstraction decomposition
  • Analyzes concrete, functional, structural, and abstract levels of a concept
  • Returns structured insights with collision opportunities at each abstraction level

SKILL.md

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---
name: abstraction-ladder
description: Perform bisociation at multiple abstraction levels
execution: subagent
prompt: ./prompt.md
input: concept (string)
used-by: combinatorial-creativity, multi-level-bisociation
---

# Abstraction Ladder

Perform bisociation at multiple abstraction levels — decompose a concept into concrete, functional, structural, and abstract levels, identifying collision opportunities at each.

## Execution

Subagent — spawned via subagent-spawning/spawn-agent skill.

## Why Subagent

Abstraction laddering requires careful level-by-level decomposition and the identification of non-obvious collision opportunities at each level. Benefits from systematic dedicated attention.

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