six-hats

To structure a decision-making debate, you can run a six-hats analysis that applies sequential fact, emotion, benefit, risk, alternative, and synthesis perspectives to pressure-test strategy tradeoffs. It outputs a moderated recommendation in a timestamped markdown file.

The best way to moderate a brainstorm into a recommendation is using a Blue Hat synthesis step. After sequential fact, emotion, benefit, risk, and alternative perspectives complete their rounds, the Blue Hat moderates the arguments into a final recommendation.

Yes, you can use six hats analysis for career decisions, architecture choices, and strategy questions. It applies sequential perspectives to any concrete choice that benefits from structured pressure-testing and yields a moderated recommendation.

To run multiple rounds of structured debate, you specify three ordered rounds where each perspective reacts to the previous round and refines the argument. The Skill then synthesizes the final outputs into a markdown file in your target directory.

Yes, you need to provide a clear topic and an output path before the debate starts. The Skill writes the finished debate synthesis directly into a timestamped markdown file located in the target directory you specify.