Map Territory

Map Territory is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by tjboudreaux in cc-thinking-skills.

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Install Map Territory

Copy Map Territory 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-map-territory ~/.claude/skills/thinking-map-territory

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-map-territory/SKILL.md in tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/thinking-map-territory
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Map Territory does

Map Territory checks live code or data when docs, tests, metrics, or assumptions conflict with observed behavior. Use it to confirm whether the current territory matches the map before making a decision.

Map Territory is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Map Territory comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-tools, anthropic, claude and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Map Territory

Docs, tests, diagrams, metrics, comments, and mental models are maps. Running code and actual data are the territory. When they disagree, verify territory and update the model — never force reality to match the description.

When to Use

Observed behavior contradicts a doc, test expectation, diagram, comment, dashboard, or prior assumption.
A claim about the system rests on a secondary source rather than current code or data.
Tests pass but production or manual behavior is wrong.
You are about to theorize why something happens before inspecting what happens.
A decision depends on whether a model, schema, or metric is still current.

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

Frequently asked about Map Territory

What else does tjboudreaux publish alongside Map Territory?
Map Territory 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 Map Territory 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 Map Territory compare to other Quality skills?
Map Territory ranks #862 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. 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 Map Territory against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.