What problem does it solve? Teams often reason by analogy, copying existing solutions and treating conventions, market prices, and inherited policies as immutable constraints. This Skill breaks that pattern by deconstructing a problem to its irreducible fundamental truths, separating hard constraints from soft constraints and unvalidated assumptions, then rebuilding an optimal solution from fundamentals alone. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Deconstruct Workflow: Breaks any problem, system, or cost structure into constituent parts and real values, exposing the gap between stated prices and fundamental costs. - Challenge Workflow: Classifies every stated constraint as hard (physics), soft (policy/choice), or assumption (unvalidated belief), surfacing hidden constraints worth challenging. - Reconstruct Workflow: Generates blank-slate solution options built only from hard constraints, with cross-domain insights and an explicit comparison against the current approach. - Use Case: Facing a $10,000/month cloud bill accepted as "just what it costs," run the analysis to discover the actual compute need is $2,000 and the remaining $8,000 is a chosen convenience, then reconstruct a right-sized architecture. ## Quick Start Use the first principles skill to analyze why our cloud hosting costs $10,000 per month and reconstruct a cheaper architecture from the fundamental requirements.
