Alternatives explore
Skill yarlson/yarstack/plugins/yarstack/skills/alternatives-explore
Generate and evaluate genuinely different approaches to a product, workflow, or system problem. Use when the user explicitly wants a bold, contrarian, experimental, or non-incremental alternative and a testable recommendation.From its SKILL.md
npx -y skills add yarlson/yarstack --skill alternatives-exploreAssembled from the repository path, not quoted from the project. Check it against their README if it does not work.
One thing to look at
- 3 stars3 stars. Stars are a popularity signal and not a quality one, but at this level it is likely that nobody has read this closely except its author, and you would be relying on your own review.
SKILL.md
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Alternative Ideation
Recommend one useful abstraction shift and a bounded experiment without turning ideation into architecture or implementation.
Workflow
- State the core problem, current assumptions, constraints, and outcome that must remain valuable.
- Generate several materially different bets by changing ownership, workflow, abstraction, distribution, architecture, or a supposedly necessary component.
- Evaluate each bet for user value, distinctness, feasibility, reversibility, and testability.
- Select the strongest bet and explain which default assumption it rejects, why that matters, and where it could fail.
- Define the smallest experiment with bounded cost and a falsifiable success signal.
Do not produce cosmetic variants, settle final architecture, research unresolved technical facts, write an implementation plan, or implement the experiment. Use architecture-refine for architectural convergence, technical-spike for blocking technical evidence, and plan-create for implementation planning.
Finish after recommending one experiment and its success signal. A recommendation does not authorize implementation.
What ships with it
Read from the repository
Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.