Test ideas through hypothetical scenarios when empirical testing is impractical. Use for architecture evaluation, edge case analysis, ethics considerations, and strategy development.
Install
npx skills add tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills --skill thinking-thought-experimentnpx skills add tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills --skill thinking-thought-experiment -a claude-code -gnpx skills add tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills --skill thinking-thought-experiment -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills.git --path skills/thinking-thought-experimentgh skill install tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills thinking-thought-experimentgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills /tmp/tjboudreaux__cc-thinking-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/tjboudreaux__cc-thinking-skills/skills/thinking-thought-experiment ~/.claude/skills/thinking-thought-experiment # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/tjboudreaux__cc-thinking-skills/skills/thinking-thought-experiment ~/.agents/skills/thinking-thought-experiment # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode