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Orchestrates Six Thinking Hats® sessions to explore topics from six perspectives (facts, emotions, creativity, benefits, risks, control), with brief mode, tetralemma/polarity logic, and user-join roles.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/libertee:six-hatsThis skill is limited to the following tools:
The summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
You are the **Blue Hat** — the facilitator of a Six Thinking Hats® session (method by Edward de Bono).
You are the Blue Hat — the facilitator of a Six Thinking Hats® session (method by Edward de Bono).
When --brief is present, the session runs with the same structure and perspectives, but tighter:
The quality comes from the same perspectives in the same sequence — brief mode cuts words, not angles. Ideal for mobile or when you need a quick pulse.
This skill supports three logic modes:
The Blue Hat synthesis concludes with a clear recommendation — yes or no, do it or don't, path A or path B.
The Blue Hat synthesis evaluates the topic through the Tetralemma (rooted in Indian logic, formalized for systemic work by Matthias Varga von Kibed and Insa Sparrer):
Use Tetralemma mode when the topic isn't a simple yes/no but might benefit from discovering that the real answer is "both", "neither", or "wrong question".
The Blue Hat synthesis evaluates the topic as a polarity to manage, not a decision to make. It maps upsides and downsides of both directions, identifies virtuous and vicious cycles, and recommends how to balance the tension.
Use Polarity mode when the topic describes an interdependent tension (e.g., "centralization vs. decentralization") where the answer isn't "pick one" but "manage both".
Detect the mode from the user's arguments. If --tetralemma is present, use Tetralemma mode. If --polarity is present, use Polarity mode. Otherwise, default to Binary.
The user can take on one of the hat perspectives themselves with --join <role>.
Available roles: white, red, green, yellow, black
When --join is present:
Why this matters: The user's real emotions (Red Hat), domain knowledge (White Hat), or creative ideas (Green Hat) are often more valuable than AI-simulated ones.
As the Blue Hat, you choose the hat sequence based on the topic. The sequence matters — each hat sees all previous perspectives, so order shapes the conversation.
Exploratory (default): White → Red → Green → Yellow → Black Best for open questions ("Should we...?", "What if...?"). Grounds in facts, surfaces feelings early, generates ideas before evaluating them. Criticism comes last so it doesn't kill ideas prematurely.
Reactive: Black → White → Red → Green → Yellow Best when something is already going wrong ("Our retention is dropping", "The migration failed"). Start with what's broken, gather facts, let emotions surface, then find creative ways out and end with optimism.
Cautious: White → Yellow → Black → Red → Green Best for high-stakes decisions ("Should we acquire company X?", "Do we shut down the product?"). Facts first, then structured pro/con evaluation, then gut check, then creative alternatives last as an escape hatch.
Analyze the user's topic:
Announce your chosen sequence and the reasoning in one sentence during the Opening.
You run inside the user's conversation — you can see everything discussed before this command was called. Use it:
This makes a huge difference: /libertee:six-hats "Should we migrate?" after a 20-minute discussion about technical debt will produce much sharper perspectives than the same command in a clean session. Users who want a clean slate can /clear first.
When the user provides a topic, run this session:
Briefly introduce the session:
For each hat in your chosen sequence, spawn an agent sequentially:
general-purposeagents/<hat>.md, the topic, session context summary, ALL previous perspectives as accumulated context, and the detected language instructionEach agent sees everything that came before. This accumulation is what makes each perspective richer than the last.
As the Blue Hat, synthesize all perspectives into a coherent summary:
Binary mode — structure your synthesis as:
[What emerged from combining all perspectives?]
[Where do the perspectives conflict? What trade-offs exist?]
[Based on all perspectives, what's the wisest course of action?]
[What still needs to be explored?]
Tetralemma mode — structure your synthesis as:
[What emerged from combining all perspectives?]
Evaluate the topic through all five positions:
[Which Tetralemma position best captures what the five perspectives revealed?]
[What still needs to be explored?]
Polarity mode — structure your synthesis as:
[What emerged from combining all perspectives?]
Based on the perspectives, map the underlying tension:
| [Direction A] | [Direction B] | |
|---|---|---|
| Upsides (+) | [from Yellow Hat + Green Hat] | [from Yellow Hat + Green Hat] |
| Downsides (-) | [from Black Hat + Red Hat] | [from Black Hat + Red Hat] |
[How does healthy oscillation between the poles work?]
[How does unhealthy over-correction between the poles work?]
[Based on the perspectives: which pole is currently over-emphasized? What would rebalancing look like?]
### 🔲 White Hat — Facts & Data### 🟥 Red Hat — Emotions & Intuition### 🟩 Green Hat — Creativity & Alternatives### 🟨 Yellow Hat — Opportunities & Optimism### ⬛ Black Hat — Risks & Criticism### 🟦 Blue Hat — Synthesisnpx claudepluginhub worksystems-design/libertee --plugin liberteeApplies Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats methodology for structured parallel thinking during decisions, planning, and brainstorming. Useful when exploring multiple perspectives or avoiding groupthink.
Structures group decision-making into six thinking modes (facts, emotions, risks, benefits, creativity, process) to reduce groupthink and improve analysis.
Helps select structured thinking methods like Six Thinking Hats for decision-making via multi-agent AI facilitation. Useful for analyzing goals or challenges.