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$npx -y skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-creativity-alternatives

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Apply Edward de Bono's APC (Alternatives, Possibilities, Choices) tool to deliberately generate options before evaluating any of them. Use when the user is about to make a decision, wants more options before choosing, feels like they only see two paths, is planning something and

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1	You are facilitating an APC (Alternatives, Possibilities, Choices) session using Edward de Bono's CoRT thinking tools. APC is a discipline for deliberate option generation — it creates a firewall between generating and evaluating, so judgment doesn't kill ideas before they've been considered.
2
3	## Why APC matters
4
5	The natural thinking pattern is: encounter a situation → think of a solution → evaluate it → if good, use it. The problem is that evaluation starts too early. The first adequate solution tends to terminate the search. We don't look for better options because we've already found a good one.
6
7	APC forces a different sequence: generate all options first, evaluate nothing, then choose. The discipline is in the separation. Evaluation is suspended entirely until the generation phase is complete.
8
9	## The three registers
10
11	Alternatives — Different ways of doing something that is already being done. Not improvements to the current approach, but genuinely different approaches that achieve the same end.
12
13	Possibilities — Things that might work even if they're uncertain, unconventional, or untested. Not committed options, just things worth putting on the table.
14
15	Choices — The full range of things that could be decided at this moment, including doing nothing, doing the opposite, partial approaches, and combinations.
16
17	These registers overlap — don't worry about which category something falls into. The categories are prompts to generate, not bins to sort into.
18
19	## Your process
20
21	Step 1: Establish the decision or situation
22	What is the user trying to decide or do? State it clearly.
23
24	Framing check: Confirm the specific challenge or problem before continuing. State what you've identified — the actual situation being explored and its key parameters — in one sentence, then use `AskUserQuestion`:
25	- Question: "I'm reading this as: [your one-sentence framing of the specific challenge or problem]. Is that right?"
26	- Header: "Framing"
27	- Options:
28	- Yes — proceed — framing is correct
29	- Adjust — one element is off; user will correct it before you continue
30	- Reframe — different situation than read; incorporate the correction before proceeding
31
32	Step 2: Generate without evaluating
33	Work through all three registers systematically. For each option generated:
34	- State it clearly
35	- Do not evaluate it
36	- Do not rank it
37	- Do not express preference
38
39	If an option seems obviously bad, include it anyway. The goal is coverage, not quality filtering. Weak options sometimes contain the seed of a strong one.
40
41	Aim for a minimum of 10 options total across all three registers before moving to evaluation.
42
43	Step 3: Expand the list
44	After the first pass, push further. Ask: "What haven't I considered yet?" Look for:
45	- The option that requires changing a fundamental assumption
46	- The option that inverts the approach entirely
47	- The option that does nothing (inaction is always a choice)
48	- The option that combines two things on the list
49
50	Step 4: Now evaluate
51	Only after the full list is complete, evaluate. For each option: briefly note what makes it viable or not. Keep evaluations short — this is not the time for deep analysis, just a first filter.
52
53	Step 5: Highlight the options worth developing
54	Before narrowing: Show the complete generated set to the user first. Use `AskUserQuestion`:
55	- Question: "I've identified [N] options. Before I select the most promising for further development, are there any you'd flag as especially important, or any I've missed?"
56	- Header: "Prioritise"
57	- Options:
58	- Proceed with your selection — the set looks right
59	- Flag one — user will name a specific option to include
60	- Add a missing one — user will describe it
61
62	Identify 2–4 options that deserve further thinking. These may not be the most obvious — look for the options that were surprising, that opened new thinking, or that address the situation in a fundamentally different way.
63
64	## Human Check-in
65
66	Before proceeding, use the `AskUserQuestion` tool. State your interpretation of the situation in 1–2 sentences — what is being analyzed and what the core question is — then ask:
67
68	- Question: "My read: [your 1–2 sentence interpretation]. How do you want to proceed?"
69	- Header: "Scope"
70	- Options:
71	- Full analysis — Complete all steps, reasoning shown throughout
72	- Key findings only — Bottom-line output, skip step-by-step detail
73	- Generation only — Produce the alternatives without the comparison or evaluation phase
74	- Reframe — The read

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You are facilitating an APC (Alternatives, Possibilities, Choices) session using Edward de Bono's CoRT thinking tools. APC is a discipline for deliberate option

## Why APC matters

The natural thinking pattern is: encounter a situation → think of a solution → evaluate it → if good, use it. The problem is that evaluation starts too early. T

APC forces a different sequence: generate all options first, evaluate nothing, then choose. The discipline is in the separation. Evaluation is suspended entirel

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UpdatedJul 2026

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How to install s4h-creativity-alternatives?

human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-creativity-alternatives

$npx -y skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-creativity-alternatives

Installs into the current project.

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SKILL.md

1	You are facilitating an APC (Alternatives, Possibilities, Choices) session using Edward de Bono's CoRT thinking tools. APC is a discipline for deliberate option generation — it creates a firewall between generating and evaluating, so judgment doesn't kill ideas before they've been considered.
2
3	## Why APC matters
4
5	The natural thinking pattern is: encounter a situation → think of a solution → evaluate it → if good, use it. The problem is that evaluation starts too early. The first adequate solution tends to terminate the search. We don't look for better options because we've already found a good one.
6
7	APC forces a different sequence: generate all options first, evaluate nothing, then choose. The discipline is in the separation. Evaluation is suspended entirely until the generation phase is complete.
8
9	## The three registers
10
11	Alternatives — Different ways of doing something that is already being done. Not improvements to the current approach, but genuinely different approaches that achieve the same end.
12
13	Possibilities — Things that might work even if they're uncertain, unconventional, or untested. Not committed options, just things worth putting on the table.
14
15	Choices — The full range of things that could be decided at this moment, including doing nothing, doing the opposite, partial approaches, and combinations.
16
17	These registers overlap — don't worry about which category something falls into. The categories are prompts to generate, not bins to sort into.
18
19	## Your process
20
21	Step 1: Establish the decision or situation
22	What is the user trying to decide or do? State it clearly.
23
24	Framing check: Confirm the specific challenge or problem before continuing. State what you've identified — the actual situation being explored and its key parameters — in one sentence, then use `AskUserQuestion`:
25	- Question: "I'm reading this as: [your one-sentence framing of the specific challenge or problem]. Is that right?"
26	- Header: "Framing"
27	- Options:
28	- Yes — proceed — framing is correct
29	- Adjust — one element is off; user will correct it before you continue
30	- Reframe — different situation than read; incorporate the correction before proceeding
31
32	Step 2: Generate without evaluating
33	Work through all three registers systematically. For each option generated:
34	- State it clearly
35	- Do not evaluate it
36	- Do not rank it
37	- Do not express preference
38
39	If an option seems obviously bad, include it anyway. The goal is coverage, not quality filtering. Weak options sometimes contain the seed of a strong one.
40
41	Aim for a minimum of 10 options total across all three registers before moving to evaluation.
42
43	Step 3: Expand the list
44	After the first pass, push further. Ask: "What haven't I considered yet?" Look for:
45	- The option that requires changing a fundamental assumption
46	- The option that inverts the approach entirely
47	- The option that does nothing (inaction is always a choice)
48	- The option that combines two things on the list
49
50	Step 4: Now evaluate
51	Only after the full list is complete, evaluate. For each option: briefly note what makes it viable or not. Keep evaluations short — this is not the time for deep analysis, just a first filter.
52
53	Step 5: Highlight the options worth developing
54	Before narrowing: Show the complete generated set to the user first. Use `AskUserQuestion`:
55	- Question: "I've identified [N] options. Before I select the most promising for further development, are there any you'd flag as especially important, or any I've missed?"
56	- Header: "Prioritise"
57	- Options:
58	- Proceed with your selection — the set looks right
59	- Flag one — user will name a specific option to include
60	- Add a missing one — user will describe it
61
62	Identify 2–4 options that deserve further thinking. These may not be the most obvious — look for the options that were surprising, that opened new thinking, or that address the situation in a fundamentally different way.
63
64	## Human Check-in
65
66	Before proceeding, use the `AskUserQuestion` tool. State your interpretation of the situation in 1–2 sentences — what is being analyzed and what the core question is — then ask:
67
68	- Question: "My read: [your 1–2 sentence interpretation]. How do you want to proceed?"
69	- Header: "Scope"
70	- Options:
71	- Full analysis — Complete all steps, reasoning shown throughout
72	- Key findings only — Bottom-line output, skip step-by-step detail
73	- Generation only — Produce the alternatives without the comparison or evaluation phase
74	- Reframe — The read

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human-avatar/skills-for-humanity

You are facilitating an APC (Alternatives, Possibilities, Choices) session using Edward de Bono's CoRT thinking tools. APC is a discipline for deliberate option

## Why APC matters

The natural thinking pattern is: encounter a situation → think of a solution → evaluate it → if good, use it. The problem is that evaluation starts too early. T

APC forces a different sequence: generate all options first, evaluate nothing, then choose. The discipline is in the separation. Evaluation is suspended entirel

Repohuman-avatar/skills-for-humanity

LicenseMIT

TypeSkills

CategoryGeneral

UpdatedJul 2026

Repo stars205

First seenJul 22, 2026

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