Agent skill

Sixhats

Six Thinking Hats parallel thinking—explore from six perspectives (facts, feelings, caution, benefits, creativity, process).

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Install Sixhats

skills CLI

$ npx skills add neurofoo/agent-skills --skill sixhats -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install neurofoo/agent-skills sixhats --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/sixhats .claude/skills/sixhats && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "sixhats" agent skill from https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills/tree/main/sixhats into .claude/skills/sixhats/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "sixhats", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills/tree/main/sixhats

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add neurofoo/agent-skills --skill sixhats -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install neurofoo/agent-skills sixhats --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/sixhats .agents/skills/sixhats && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "sixhats" agent skill from https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills/tree/main/sixhats into .agents/skills/sixhats/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "sixhats", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add neurofoo/agent-skills --skill sixhats -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install neurofoo/agent-skills sixhats --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/sixhats .cursor/skills/sixhats && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "sixhats" agent skill from https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills/tree/main/sixhats into .cursor/skills/sixhats/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "sixhats", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills.git --path sixhats

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add neurofoo/agent-skills --skill sixhats -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install neurofoo/agent-skills sixhats --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/sixhats .gemini/skills/sixhats && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "sixhats" agent skill from https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills/tree/main/sixhats into .gemini/skills/sixhats/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "sixhats", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install neurofoo/agent-skills sixhats

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add neurofoo/agent-skills --skill sixhats -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/sixhats .github/skills/sixhats && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "sixhats" agent skill from https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills/tree/main/sixhats into .github/skills/sixhats/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "sixhats", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add neurofoo/agent-skills --skill sixhats -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install neurofoo/agent-skills sixhats --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/sixhats .opencode/skills/sixhats && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "sixhats" agent skill from https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills/tree/main/sixhats into .opencode/skills/sixhats/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "sixhats", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: sixhats
GitHub stars: 119
Token cost: ~638 tokens
SKILL.md length: 294 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 22
Repo updated: Jan 19, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: MIT

At a glance

Six Thinking Hats parallel thinking—explore from six perspectives (facts, feelings, caution, benefits, creativity, process).

Works in 2 steps: [Action 1] → [Action 2]
Group decisions
SKILL.md covers Instructions, White Hat: Facts and Information, Red Hat: Feelings and Intuition and Black Hat: Caution and…, plus 4 more sections
Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Sixhats is an agent skill from neurofoo/agent-skills. Six Thinking Hats parallel thinking—explore from six perspectives (facts, feelings, caution, benefits, creativity, process). Use for group decisions or ensuring all angles are considered.

Its SKILL.md is about 640 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Agent Skills for Claude Code and OpenCode. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

Group decisions
Ensuring all angles are considered

Example prompts

“/sixhats”

Workflow steps

2 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

[Action 1]
[Action 2]

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 0e7ac2a. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Sixhats loads about 638 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 49 tokens; SKILL.md has 294 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~49
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~638

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from neurofoo/agent-skills at commit 0e7ac2a, republished under its MIT licence (© neurofoo). 294 words, ~638 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/sixhats/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).

name: sixhats
description: Six Thinking Hats parallel thinking—explore from six perspectives (facts, feelings, caution, benefits, creativity, process). Use for group decisions or ensuring all angles are considered.
user-invocable: true

Six Thinking Hats Analysis

Explore a topic from all six perspectives—facts, feelings, caution, benefits, creativity, and process.

Instructions

Work through each hat sequentially, giving full attention to one perspective before moving to the next. This is parallel thinking, not debate.

Output Format

Topic: [What we're exploring]

White Hat: Facts and Information

What do we know? What data do we have?

Known Facts

[Fact 1]
[Fact 2]

Information Gaps

What don't we know? [Gap]
How could we find out? [Method]

Red Hat: Feelings and Intuition

How do we feel about this? What does gut instinct say?

Emotional Reactions

[Feeling 1]
[Feeling 2]

Intuitions

My gut says [intuition]

No justification needed—this hat is about feelings, not reasons.

Black Hat: Caution and Critical Thinking

What could go wrong? What are the risks and problems?

Risks

Risk	Likelihood	Severity
[risk]	High/Med/Low	High/Med/Low

Why It Might Fail

[Reason 1]
[Reason 2]

Yellow Hat: Benefits and Optimism

What's good about this? What value does it offer?

Benefits

Benefit	Who Benefits	Magnitude
[benefit]	[stakeholder]	High/Med/Low

Best Case Scenario If everything goes well: [description]

Green Hat: Creativity and Alternatives

What else is possible? What new ideas emerge?

Alternative Approaches

[Alternative 1]
[Alternative 2]

Wild Ideas (don't filter)

[Crazy idea 1]
[Crazy idea 2]

Blue Hat: Process and Meta-Thinking

What have we learned? What should we do next?

Summary of Perspectives

Hat	Key Insight
White	[main data point]
Red	[main feeling]
Black	[main concern]
Yellow	[main benefit]
Green	[best alternative]

Recommended Next Steps

[Action 1]
[Action 2]

Decision/Direction Based on all six perspectives:

[Recommendation or decision]

Guidelines

Spend equal time on each hat (resist over-using Black)
Red Hat requires NO justification—feelings are valid input
Green Hat means no criticism—all ideas welcome
Everyone wears the same hat at the same time

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Files

Just SKILL.md in sixhats of neurofoo/agent-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 0e7ac2a

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Questions about Sixhats

What does Sixhats do?

Six Thinking Hats parallel thinking—explore from six perspectives (facts, feelings, caution, benefits, creativity, process). Sixhats is an agent skill from neurofoo/agent-skills. Six Thinking Hats parallel thinking—explore from six perspectives (facts, feelings, caution, benefits, creativity, process).

When should I use Sixhats?

Sixhats fits situations like: group decisions; ensuring all angles are considered.

How do I install Sixhats in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add neurofoo/agent-skills --skill sixhats -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (sixhats in neurofoo/agent-skills) into .claude/skills/sixhats in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Sixhats in Codex?

Run `npx skills add neurofoo/agent-skills --skill sixhats -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (sixhats in neurofoo/agent-skills) into .agents/skills/sixhats in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Sixhats in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add neurofoo/agent-skills --skill sixhats -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/sixhats, .gemini/skills/sixhats, .github/skills/sixhats and .opencode/skills/sixhats in your project.

What does Sixhats need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Sixhats is instructions for the agent only.

Does Sixhats access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Sixhats safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Sixhats use?

Sixhats is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Sixhats use?

About 638 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Sixhats?

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Who maintains Sixhats?

neurofoo (a GitHub user) maintains it in neurofoo/agent-skills, which has 119 GitHub stars. The repository holds 22 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on January 19, 2026.

Source: neurofoo/agent-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Install Sixhats

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Six Thinking Hats Analysis

Instructions

Output Format

White Hat: Facts and Information

Red Hat: Feelings and Intuition

Black Hat: Caution and Critical Thinking

Yellow Hat: Benefits and Optimism

Green Hat: Creativity and Alternatives

Blue Hat: Process and Meta-Thinking

Guidelines

Files

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