provocation-generation

$npx mdskill add yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/provocation-generation

Generates lateral thinking provocations to challenge assumptions

  • Helps users break free from conventional thinking patterns
  • Uses de Bono's techniques like reversal and exaggeration
  • Analyzes dominant ideas to craft provocative alternatives
  • Returns a set of four creative provocations for further exploration

SKILL.md

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---
name: provocation-generation
description: Generate de Bono lateral thinking provocations to challenge dominant ideas using escape, reversal, exaggeration, and distortion.
execution: subagent
prompt: ./prompt.md
input: dominant_idea
used-by: dominant-idea-escape
---

## Execution

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

## Budget

One unit = one complete provocation set (4+ provocations) for one dominant idea.

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