appreciative-reframe

SkillDev tools

Lets your agent reframe a problem around cases where the desired outcome is already happening.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the appreciative-reframe skill

About this skill

Reframe a problem around functioning exceptions, existing strengths, positive deviance, and conditions under which desired behavior already occurs.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine in skills/appreciative-reframe/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Purpose

Reframe a problem around functioning exceptions, strengths, positive deviance, and conditions supporting desired behavior.

Input contract

required: [problem_statement, functioning_exceptions]
optional: [stakeholders, outcome_definition]
constraints: [exceptions must be observed cases, not aspirations]

Procedure

  1. Identify cases where the desired behavior already occurs.
  2. Extract the enabling conditions and strengths present in those cases.
  3. Rewrite the research question around reproducing or extending those conditions.

Output contract

produces: [exception_inventory, enabling_conditions, appreciative_reframe]
delta_fields: [findings, hypothesis_updates, decisions]

Quality gates

  • Each positive exception has evidence and a condition set; the reframe preserves the target outcome.

Failure and counterexamples

Reject success stories that are unverified, incomparable, or explained only by selection bias.

Provenance map

  • deep-insight/appreciative-reframing: resolved.

Signals

GitHub stars
501
Forks
41
Last commit
Sep 2026
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Catalog kind
skill
Key
appreciative-reframe
Source
github.com/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine