# Problem Reframing

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-npbuilds-skill-library-problem-reframing`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [npbuilds](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/npbuilds)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [npbuilds](https://github.com/npbuilds)
- **Source:** https://github.com/npbuilds/skill-library/tree/main/skills/binding-vow/problem-reframing
- **Website:** https://skill-library-prod.web.app/

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-npbuilds-skill-library-problem-reframing
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Problem Reframing — Director

Most problems arrive pre-framed, and the frame is usually invisible to the person who set it.
This director realizes six-eyes' Phase 4 (Reframe): it rotates the formulation through
alternative frames, inverts it to surface failure preconditions, rotates the centered
stakeholder, and grounds the work in the cognitive science of framing effects. The output is
2–3 genuinely different formulations the orchestrator can choose among.

Reframing is where wicked and contested problems earn their keep — a better frame often dissolves
the difficulty that decomposition alone could not.

## Routing Table

| Child skill | Use when | Output |
|---|---|---|
| `frame-rotator` | You need 2–3 alternative formulations (IDEO "How Might We", Polya specialize/generalize) | Alternative problem statements |
| `inversion-tool` | You want to surface preconditions for success by asking what would guarantee failure (Munger) | Inverted failure modes → negated success conditions |
| `stakeholder-rotator` | You need to surface whose interests the current framing centers and whose it hides | A stakeholder map with the invisible parties named |
| `kahneman-framing` | You need the conceptual basis for framing effects, attribute substitution, or the Einstellung effect | Reference: framing/substitution/fixedness |

## Routing Logic

1. Start with `frame-rotator` to generate alternatives; pull `kahneman-framing` to name the
   cognitive trap the original frame fell into.
2. Run `inversion-tool` for high-stakes or "we've been stuck on this" statements.
3. Run `stakeholder-rotator` whenever the problem touches multiple parties — it calls
   philosophy/ethics/values-excavator cross-domain to surface hidden interests.
4. Hand the candidate frames back to `six-eyes`; if the reframe itself is contested, the
   orchestrator escalates to the philosophy dialectic skills.

## Scope Boundaries

- **In scope:** generating and grounding alternative formulations.
- **Out of scope:** scoring the resulting statement (→ `statement-audit`), shaping it for an
  audience (→ `statement-compression`).
- **Escalate to `six-eyes`** when reframing reveals the problem is wicked enough to warrant a
  full deep-lane pass.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [npbuilds](https://github.com/npbuilds)
- **Source:** [npbuilds/skill-library](https://github.com/npbuilds/skill-library)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://skill-library-prod.web.app/

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-npbuilds-skill-library-problem-reframing
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/npbuilds
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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