Analogy

Analogy is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by human-avatar in skills-for-humanity.

220 stars23 forkson human-avatar/skills-for-humanityAdded 2026/09/04Repository updated 2026/07/15

claude-codeclaude-code-plugincognitive-frameworkscreativitydecision-makingethicsmental-modelsproblem-solvingreasoningsystems-thinking

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Install Analogy

Copy Analogy into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/tree/main/skills/s4h-analogy ~/.claude/skills/s4h-analogy

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/s4h-analogy/SKILL.md in human-avatar/skills-for-humanity
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/s4h-analogy
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2970 skills

What Analogy does

Analogy routes analogy requests to the right tool for stress-testing metaphors, importing solutions from other domains, shifting perspective, or checking structural similarity. Use it when comparing one situation to another or asking where a comparison breaks down.

Analogy is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Analogy comes from a repository tagged claude-code, claude-code-plugin, cognitive-frameworks, creativity and decision-making.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Analogy

Applies analogical reasoning to any problem. Diagnoses what kind of analogy work is needed and applies the right tool.

Which tool fits

You need to...	Tool
Find where an existing analogy or metaphor breaks down	boundary-testing
Import solutions from a completely different domain	domain-transfer
Approach a problem through a different field's lens	perspective-shifting
Test the structural correspondence between two situations	structure-mapping

Routing Decision

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Analogy

What else does human-avatar publish alongside Analogy?
Analogy is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Aesthetic, Aesthetic Coherence Check and Aesthetic Elegance Testing. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Analogy does, and is maintained by human-avatar in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the human-avatar/skills-for-humanity page.
How does Analogy compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Analogy ranks #2571 by stars among the 2970 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Analogy against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.