Kepner-Tregoe Analysis

Kepner-Tregoe Analysis is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by tjboudreaux in cc-thinking-skills.

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Install Kepner-Tregoe Analysis

Copy Kepner-Tregoe Analysis 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/tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills/tree/main/skills/thinking-kepner-tregoe ~/.claude/skills/thinking-kepner-tregoe

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/tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/thinking-kepner-tregoe/SKILL.md in tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/thinking-kepner-tregoe
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Kepner-Tregoe Analysis does

Kepner-Tregoe Analysis structures problem diagnosis with IS/IS-NOT contrasts and decision analysis with MUSTs, WANTs, and adverse-consequence checks. Use it for selective defects or high-stakes option choices.

Kepner-Tregoe Analysis is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Kepner-Tregoe Analysis comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-tools, anthropic, claude and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Kepner-Tregoe Analysis

Core rule: Diagnose deviations by testing causes against both IS and IS-NOT. Compare consequential choices by screening MUSTs, weighting WANTs, and exposing adverse consequences before selecting.

When to Use

A defect affects some objects, places, times, or cohorts but not comparable others.
Several candidate causes remain and the contrast boundary can discriminate them.
A consequential option choice has explicit non-negotiables, competing objectives, and risks that should be compared consistently.

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

Frequently asked about Kepner-Tregoe Analysis

What else does tjboudreaux publish alongside Kepner-Tregoe Analysis?
Kepner-Tregoe Analysis is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Bounded Rationality, Circle Of Competence and Effectuation. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Kepner-Tregoe Analysis does, and is maintained by tjboudreaux in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills page.
How does Kepner-Tregoe Analysis compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Kepner-Tregoe Analysis ranks #1395 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 Kepner-Tregoe Analysis against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.