
Innovators
You’re expected to produce the breakthrough, not just manage the roadmap toward one.
Bring the CHILD Framework into Claude — a free Agent Skill for Curiosity-first problem solving.
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You’ve read the book. Now think with it — live, on any problem you’re facing right now. /child applies Curiosity, Heuristics, Imagination, Laconic, and Deductive thinking to your actual challenge, the way A CHILD in Us: The Creative Thinking Handbook teaches it.

Real thinking doesn’t move C, H, I, L, D and stop. Deductive reasoning sparks a new question, and Curiosity starts again — that loop is what this Skill runs on every problem you bring it.
Readers of A CHILD in Us: The Creative Thinking Handbook who want to stop re-reading the framework and start using it — on a real decision, a stuck project, a pitch you can’t simplify, a problem you’ve been circling for weeks.

Innovators
You’re expected to produce the breakthrough, not just manage the roadmap toward one.

Creative professionals
You get paid for ideas, and the tank runs dry on a schedule nobody consulted you about.

Designers
You can execute almost any brief you’re handed — the harder job is reframing a bad one before you start.

Managers & team leaders
You’re supposed to coach a skill nobody ever taught you either.

C-suite & senior executives
Your actual job is now the one thing automation can’t do: deciding which problem is worth solving.

Educators
You’re preparing students for a decade that keeps rewriting the syllabus underneath you.

Entrepreneurs
You’re building something that doesn’t exist yet, on a runway that very much does.

Students
You’re entering a market that will grade you on judgment, not just recall.

Young adults
You’re choosing a direction before anyone hands you a finished map.

Engineers & IT professionals
You solve the well-defined technical problem fast — it’s the ambiguous one upstream that stalls you.

Analysts
You’re excellent at explaining what already happened. This is the method for what to build next.

Policy makers
You’re writing rules for problems that haven’t fully arrived yet.

Lifelong learners
You’ve finished the course. You want the actual skill it was supposed to teach.
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Then open a new chat and try: “I can’t decide between two directions for my project — /child this.”
Using Claude Code instead?
Drop the skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/ and Claude will find it automatically — no upload needed.
/child is built to the open Agent Skills specification, so the same skill folder works in any tool that supports it — not just Claude. A few examples:
Anthropic published Agent Skills as an open standard in December 2025 — this page only walks through the Claude install, since that’s the primary path for most readers, but the same folder from GitHub drops into any compatible tool’s skills directory.
Prefer to grab it without the form? The source is public and always free on GitHub — no email required.
View source on GitHub →No — the Skill explains each trait as it applies it. But it lands a lot deeper if you have.
No. This is an independent Skill built by undefined, using Claude's open Skills format. It isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.
Yes. You just need an eligible Claude plan to run any custom Skill at all — a Claude platform requirement, not something charged here.
Yes — open an issue on GitHub, linked below.
Start simpler: take CHILDex, the free assessment that shows which of the five CHILD traits you lean on — and which one’s underused.