lateral-thinking: Lateral thinking skills for AI agents - 8 techniques + a router. de Bono for your coding agent

by danium · Codex Skill · ★ 307

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How to install lateral-thinking

npx skills add danium/lateral-thinking
/plugin marketplace add danium/lateral-thinking

Taken from the project's README on GitHub.

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 58/100

None of the 42 rules matched — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against 42 published rules built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours.

The quality score combines nine heuristic checks of the repo and its README: completeness, clarity, specificity, examples, structure, agent readiness, step-by-step content, instruction quality and security notes. It rates how well the project explains itself to an agent, not the code.

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Quick Facts

Stars307
Forks23
CategoryCodex Skill
LicenseMIT
Quality Score58/100
Last Updated2026-09-13
Created2026-07-09
Platformsclaude-code, codex
Est. Tokens~15k

About lateral-thinking

lateral-thinking Your product isn't out of ideas. It's stuck in the obvious ones. Give your AI coding agent eight structured ways to find a better product direction — not just another feature to ship. A router diagnoses how you're stuck and picks the right move. The demo Same agent. Same prompt. One of them read a skill first. Prompt: "Our users create one project, then never return.

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How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy: 42 published rules, covering credential harvesting, data exfiltration, curl | sh installers and more. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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