The Skill File
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The Skill File
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name: think-first
description: Enforce mental model application before major decisions. Use when facing architecture choices, business decisions, feature prioritisation, trade-off analysis, or any task where the user asks "should I...?" or "which is better?".
use_when: User faces a decision with trade-offs, compares options, asks "should I", weighs pros/cons, describes competing constraints, or needs to preserve specific requirements through implementation.
user-invocable: true
---The use_when field is unusually detailed here — because the whole point of the skill is triggering on the right signals. “Should I”, “which option”, “how should we approach” — those are the phrases that need interception.