Use Case
First Principles Thinking is a powerful AI agent skill that extends your assistant with new capabilities. Break problems to fundamentals, rebuild from truth, eliminate hidden assumptions. This guide walks you through installing First Principles Thinking, configuring it for your setup, and running your first commands β so you can start getting value in minutes.
Install First Principles Thinking: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install first-principles-thinking
Restart your AI client (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw)
Type a natural language request related to finance & investment to trigger First Principles Thinking
Review the output and refine your prompt for better results
Combine First Principles Thinking with other skills to build multi-step workflows
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing First Principles Thinking
Help me get started with First Principles Thinking
What can First Principles Thinking do for my finance & investment workflow?
Show me an example of using First Principles Thinking
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install first-principles-thinkingOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install first-principles-thinkingβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/first-principles-thinking/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.