Six Thinking Hats

by danium

Six Thinking Hats is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by danium in lateral-thinking.

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Install Six Thinking Hats

Copy Six Thinking Hats 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/six-hats ~/.claude/skills/six-hats

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

What Six Thinking Hats does

Take one decision and run it through six deliberately separated perspectives, one at a time: facts, feelings, risks, benefits, alternatives, then synthesis. Use when a decision is being made too fast or from one angle, when everyone agrees suspiciously quickly, or when the discussion mixes emotions with data.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Six Thinking Hats

What this technique does

Take one decision and run it through six deliberately separated perspectives, one at a time. Each pass wears a single "hat": facts, feelings, risks, benefits, alternatives, then synthesis. The power is in the separation — a group that argues all six dimensions at once collapses into whoever talks loudest, but a group that examines facts only, then feelings only, surfaces things the argument would have buried. It converts a tug-of-war into six clean passes over the same ground.

Based on Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats® method (Six Thinking Hats, 1985). Six Thinking Hats is a registered trademark of the de Bono Group; this skill is an independent educational implementation.

Workflow

Step 1: Confirm the target

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

Frequently asked about Six Thinking Hats

What else does danium publish alongside Six Thinking Hats?
Six Thinking Hats is one of 9 skills that DirSkills catalogs from danium/lateral-thinking, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Assumption Inversion, Concept Fan and Forced Analogy. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Six Thinking Hats 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 Six Thinking Hats compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Six Thinking Hats ranks #2223 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 Six Thinking Hats against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.