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Break out of a locked problem frame by picking one disciplined move — reframe, provocation (Po), random stimulus, SCAMPER, inversion, structured analogy, constraint play, or family traversal — and committing to it before evaluating. Use when stuck, when options feel narrow or obvious, when iterations produce variations of the same idea, or when the user says "widen this", "break out of", "think differently", "I'm stuck", "feels too obvious", "stress-test the framing", "what am I missing", or holds two related examples and asks what lies between or beyond them. Complements challenging (which evaluates) and convening-experts (which synthesizes viewpoints); this skill generates distance, not judgment.

Use this Skill: https://skilld.dev/gh/oaustegard/claude-skills/generative-thinking

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referencesstimulus-vocabulary.md

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Stimulus vocabulary — 128 nouns for the hashed random stimulus

Load this file only when running the Random stimulus move with an internal seed (String Seed of Thought, Misaki & Akiba 2025). 128 entries so the index is hash mod 128.

Procedure

  1. Write out a random string of 40+ characters — mixed letters, digits, symbols, no visible pattern.
  2. Write out the reduction over the whole string. Either:
    • Sum-mod: sum of the character codes (ASCII/Unicode code points), then mod 128.
    • Rolling hash: h = (h * 31 + code) mod 128 for each character in order, starting from h = 0. Show the arithmetic. A derivation that is not on the page gets hallucinated.
  3. Take the word at that index. Commit to it; do not re-roll.

Worked example (sum-mod, short string for illustration — use a longer one in practice):

seed:  q7#Vx2!mLp9
codes: 113 55 35 86 120 50 33 109 76 112 57
sum:   846
846 mod 128 = 78   ->  "pollen"

Two measured failure modes: reading only the first character (LLM seeds carry strong positional bias — the paper found 947 of 1000 QwQ-32B strings opened with "7"), and adopting a strategy without writing it out.

Vocabulary

index noun
0 anvil
1 tide
2 lichen
3 ledger
4 sonar
5 compost
6 hinge
7 sieve
8 glacier
9 hymn
10 abacus
11 bellows
12 kiln
13 quorum
14 ballast
15 marrow
16 loom
17 estuary
18 tourniquet
19 mortar
20 scrimmage
21 prism
22 tithe
23 rookery
24 sextant
25 fallow
26 gasket
27 cistern
28 relay
29 furrow
30 pendulum
31 quarry
32 saddle
33 harrow
34 mosaic
35 embargo
36 tuning-fork
37 peat
38 nomad
39 scaffold
40 beacon
41 ferment
42 cartilage
43 tariff
44 moraine
45 lullaby
46 spindle
47 brine
48 coral
49 sluice
50 armistice
51 quill
52 trellis
53 ration
54 wick
55 shale
56 tremor
57 overture
58 gauntlet
59 silt
60 canopy
61 metronome
62 dowry
63 stencil
64 drumhead
65 ossuary
66 cargo
67 flint
68 ledge
69 bobbin
70 monsoon
71 almanac
72 rudder
73 tannin
74 sanctuary
75 cog
76 bramble
77 tribunal
78 pollen
79 keel
80 mildew
81 vault
82 lantern
83 reef
84 grist
85 choir
86 levee
87 tendon
88 parapet
89 foal
90 plumb-line
91 sermon
92 hive
93 scree
94 caravan
95 gutter
96 mantle
97 turnstile
98 yeast
99 fresco
100 dam
101 ricochet
102 orchard
103 ballot
104 piston
105 murmur
106 snare
107 compass
108 rind
109 sediment
110 vigil
111 cloister
112 forge
113 hourglass
114 vine
115 capstan
116 dune
117 ember
118 tapestry
119 warden
120 kelp
121 anthem
122 gimbal
123 thaw
124 ration-book
125 ossify
126 treble
127 plinth

Source: SKILL.md on GitHub

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