Concept Fan

by danium

Concept Fan is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by danium in lateral-thinking.

216 stars14 forkson danium/lateral-thinkingAdded 2026/08/11+88% in starsRepository updated 2026/07/09

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Install Concept Fan

Copy Concept Fan 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/danium/lateral-thinking/tree/main/skills/concept-fan ~/.claude/skills/concept-fan

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/danium/lateral-thinking.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/concept-fan/SKILL.md in danium/lateral-thinking
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/concept-fan
Collection: One of 9 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Concept Fan does

Escape narrow thinking by climbing the abstraction ladder from a current solution to its broader purpose, then branching out alternative concepts and concrete implementations. Use when stuck on variations of one idea or to widen options before committing.

Concept Fan is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Concept Fan comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, brainstorming, claude-code, codex and creativity.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Concept Fan

What this technique does

Take the current solution and climb one rung up the ladder of abstraction by asking "what is this a way of doing?" The answer is the direction — the broader purpose the solution was only ever one route toward. From that vantage, fan out alternative concepts that serve the same direction, then drop each promising concept back down into concrete implementations. The move that unlocks everything is the climb: once you name the direction, the current solution stops looking inevitable and becomes just one branch among several.

Source: Edward de Bono, Serious Creativity (1992).

Workflow

Step 1: Confirm the target

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

Frequently asked about Concept Fan

What else does danium publish alongside Concept Fan?
Concept Fan is one of 9 skills that DirSkills catalogs from danium/lateral-thinking, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Assumption Inversion, Forced Analogy and Lateral Thinking. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Concept Fan does, and is maintained by danium in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the danium/lateral-thinking page.
How does Concept Fan compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Concept Fan ranks #2218 by stars among the 2451 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 Concept Fan against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.