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It fetches `SKILL.md` and drops it into `.claude/skills/` (or the right\ndirectory for whichever agent you use):\n\n```bash\n# into the current project\nnpx skills add escherize/pyramid-principle-skill\n\n# into all projects (user-level)\nnpx skills add escherize/pyramid-principle-skill --global\n```\n\n### Without the skills CLI\n\nRun this repo's own installer straight from GitHub:\n\n```bash\nnpx github:escherize/pyramid-principle-skill            # current project\nnpx github:escherize/pyramid-principle-skill --global   # all projects\n```\n\nOr clone and run it directly:\n\n```bash\ngit clone https://github.com/escherize/pyramid-principle-skill\nnode pyramid-principle-skill/bin/install.js --global\n```\n\n## Use\n\nOnce installed, ask Claude things like \"structure this memo with the pyramid\nprinciple\", \"make this more executive / lead with the conclusion\", \"is this\nBLUF?\", or just mention Minto / SCQA / MECE. The skill activates automatically.\n\n## What it enforces\n\n- **Governing thought first** — the single main idea as the opening sentence.\n- **SCQA intro** — Situation, Complication, Question, Answer.\n- **MECE groups** — no overlap, no gaps.\n- **Three grouping rules** — same kind, summarizing parent, logical order.\n- **Inductive \u003e deductive** ordering at the top level.\n- **Action titles** on slides — one message per slide, title states the conclusion.\n- **30-second / first-sentence test** before shipping.\n\nDerived from Minto, *The Minto Pyramid Principle* (1985/1987).\n\n## Provenance\n\nThe framework rests on Minto's book, corroborated by McKinsey materials,\nWikipedia (MECE), and practitioner write-ups (strategyu.co, think-cell.com,\nthinkinsights.net, modelthinkers.com).\n\nThe LLM-enforcement rules are grounded in: Anthropic prompt-engineering docs\n(positive framing, anti-preamble, structured outputs), the reasoning-first vs\nanswer-first ordering result (dylancastillo.co; OpenAI structured-output docs),\nnegation-unreliability research (NeQA inverse-scaling; \"Pink Elephant\"\narXiv:2503.22395), and prompt-ordering effects (\"A Taxonomy of Prompt Defects\",\narXiv:2509.14404). The reason-hidden-then-BLUF two-stage pattern is a synthesis\nof two verified findings, not a directly measured pattern.\n\n## License\n\nMIT\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fescherize%2Fpyramid-principle-skill","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fescherize%2Fpyramid-principle-skill","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fescherize%2Fpyramid-principle-skill/lists"}