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abstraction-ladder

The abstraction-ladder skill decomposes concepts across four hierarchical levels, concrete, functional, structural, and abstract, to identify bisociation opportunities where unexpected connections emerge. Use this when exploring innovation potential in existing ideas, seeking novel combinations across different scales of analysis, or breaking down complex problems to uncover creative solutions at multiple organizational depths.

Install in Claude Code
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git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine /tmp/abstraction-ladder && cp -r /tmp/abstraction-ladder/skills/abstraction-ladder ~/.claude/skills/abstraction-ladder
Then start a new Claude Code session; the skill loads automatically.

SKILL.md

# Abstraction Ladder

Perform bisociation at multiple abstraction levels — decompose a concept into concrete, functional, structural, and abstract levels, identifying collision opportunities at each.

## Execution

Subagent — spawned via subagent-spawning/spawn-agent skill.

## Why Subagent

Abstraction laddering requires careful level-by-level decomposition and the identification of non-obvious collision opportunities at each level. Benefits from systematic dedicated attention.