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Constraint Drilling · yogsoth-ai | DecimalAI

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Constraint Drilling

yogsoth-ai/constraint-drilling

Source yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine ↗License Apache-2.0

Identify constraints, classify them by type and severity, assess removability, and design removal paths for removable constraints.

SkillScore82Maintained

Automatic

Project Management pack

Last verified 8/22/2026

What it changes

Passed 18 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 9 of 22 without it.

Without skill41%

With skill82%

Checks it passed that the model alone missed

Deploys removal-path SOP for stage 4.
Deploys removability-assessment SOP for stage 3.
Includes pre-mortem analysis in the identification phase.

and 15 more in the full report

11 fixed7 passed either way2 still failing2 broke

Pass-rate lift: +41 pp
Tokens: +44%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: +12%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/22/2026v118 of 22 cases passed with skill

Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.

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Save it into your project's skills folder. Claude Code picks it up in its next session.

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/yogsoth-ai-constraint-drilling/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/yogsoth-ai-constraint-drilling/SKILL.md

Want it pinned and updatable? pip install "decimalai>=0.15", then decimalai skills add yogsoth-ai-constraint-drilling, and start Claude Code with claude --plugin-dir "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.agents"

1 · One-time — install the CLI (docs ↗)

pip install "decimalai>=0.15"

2 · Get the skill — writes .agents/skills/yogsoth-ai-constraint-drilling/ and pins it in .decimal/skills.lock

decimalai skills add yogsoth-ai-constraint-drilling

No CLI? Get the same file — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/yogsoth-ai-constraint-drilling/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/yogsoth-ai-constraint-drilling/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/yogsoth-ai-constraint-drilling/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/yogsoth-ai-constraint-drilling.json ↗

Safety checks: 3 of 3 passed

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See it in action

One of 11 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.

1 of 11

Prompt

When initiating Stage 1 for analyzing candidates under this framework, which specific SOP tool module must be deployed for constraint identification?

What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked	Without skill	With skill
Deploys constraint-identification-sop for stage 1 identification.	Missed	Passed

case-13 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/22/2026 · answers are capped and redacted

What's inside

The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.

SKILL.md51 linessingle file

Constraint Drilling

Systematically discover all constraints blocking a candidate, classify them into actionable categories, assess which can be removed, and design concrete removal paths for those that can.

Stages

Constraint Identification — Use TOC current-reality-tree, TRIZ contradiction analysis, and Pre-mortem to surface all constraints. Deploy constraint-identification-sop SOP.
Constraint Classification — Sort identified constraints into hard constraints (immovable), soft constraints (workable), and assumptions (unvalidated). Deploy constraint-classification SOP.
Removability Assessment — For each non-trivial constraint, score how removable it is given available resources and context. Deploy removability-assessment SOP for each constraint (parallelizable).
Removal Path Design — For constraints with removability > 0.3, design concrete steps to remove or mitigate them. Deploy removal-path SOP for each removable constraint.

Available SOPs

SOP	Stage	Purpose
constraint-identification-sop	1	Discover constraints using structured methods
constraint-classification	2	Categorize constraints by type
removability-assessment	3	Score removability of each constraint
removal-path	4	Design removal steps and timeline

Execution Guidance

Stage 1 should apply all three methods (TOC, TRIZ, Pre-mortem) for completeness
Stage 2 requires Stage 1 output
Stage 3 can run assessments in parallel for each constraint
Stage 4 only runs for constraints with removability score > 0.3
If a hard constraint is a true showstopper, flag immediately — do not wait for full tactic completion

Minimum Yield

Classified constraint list with >= 3 constraints identified
Removability assessment for each non-trivial constraint
Removal paths for all constraints scoring removability > 0.3

Available SOPs

Track record

Benchmark

18 / 22

test cases passed, vs 9 / 22 without

Adoption

Users: 0
Times used: 0

Safety and source details

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/3/2026

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IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

yogsoth-ai / de-anthropocentric-research-engine

skills/constraint-drilling/SKILL.md

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License Apache-2.0Imported 8/3/2026Version v1

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Constraint Drilling

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