thinking-tools

To run a pre-mortem analysis for product decisions, you apply structured reasoning primitives that simulate potential failure scenarios before committing to a plan, surfacing hidden risks and generating mitigations to prevent costly mistakes.

An assumption audit is a structured reasoning process that surfaces and evaluates hidden premises underlying a plan. You need it during decision-making when facing paralysis or before committing to high-stakes choices to ensure foundational assumptions are valid.

You evaluate competing options using composable primitives like matrix-evaluation and steelman protocols. This structured reasoning approach breaks informal intuition into auditable steps, stress-testing each alternative to produce clear, reproducible recommendations.

Yes, you can inject structured thinking protocols into subagent prompts. The toolkit provides standalone primitive protocols specifically designed for agent-orchestration, enabling subagents to apply structured reasoning during code reviews, estimations, and strategic choices.

The best way to triage reasoning primitives for strategic choices is using a fast triage guide. It directs you to the appropriate protocol—such as pre-mortem or assumption-audit—based on the specific decision point, ensuring the right evaluation method is applied.

A limitation of composable reasoning primitives is that they require clear decision boundaries to function effectively. While they provide auditable thinking steps, they cannot replace domain expertise and work best when the competing options and assumptions are explicitly defined.