name: six-hats description: "Structured six-hats thinking sessions for debating decisions. Use when user says "six hats", "six hats debate", or wants to explore a decision through six colored-perspective lenses in sequential rounds with a final recommendation."

Six Hats Debate Skill

How It Works

User submits the topic — paste the decision, plan, or question in chat.
User specifies output path — e.g. Projects/my-debate/ or any path.
Skill runs 3 rounds of sequential debate, one hat at a time.
Blue hat moderates — summarizes and provides the final recommendation.
Summary written to {output_path}/debate-{timestamp}.md.

The Six Hats

| Hat | Role | Focus | |-----|------|-------| | White | Facts & Information | What do we know? What's unknown? What data exists? | | Red | Emotion & Intuition | Gut feelings, hunches, what feels wrong even without evidence | | Yellow | Optimism & Benefits | Why could this work? What's the best outcome? | | Black | Caution & Risks | What could go wrong? What are the failure modes? | | Green | Creativity & Alternatives | New ideas, different approaches, lateral thinking | | Blue | Process & Moderation | Orchestrates the debate, manages time, writes final summary |

Debate Rules

Each hat speaks sequentially: White → Red → Yellow → Black → Green → Blue
Round 1: Each hat responds to the original topic
Round 2: Each hat sees Round 1 output and can counter, amplify, or concede
Round 3: Final statements — hats can shift positions based on the debate
Blue hat does not contribute opinions during rounds; only moderates and summarizes at the end

Output Format

# Six Hats Debate: {topic}

**Date**: {timestamp}
**Rounds**: 3

---

## Final Recommendation (Blue Hat)

*Synthesized conclusion and recommended course of action.*

---

## Round 1

### White Hat
{facts and information}

### Red Hat
{emotion and intuition}

### Yellow Hat
{optimism and benefits}

### Black Hat
{caution and risks}

### Green Hat
{creativity and alternatives}

---

## Round 2

{...same structure...}

## Round 3

{...same structure...}

---

## Raw Debate Data

{all hat statements in order, unfiltered}

What It Does

The skill runs three sequential rounds using these roles:

White Hat: facts, known information, and unknowns

Red Hat: intuition, emotional reactions, and gut checks

Yellow Hat: benefits, upside, and reasons the idea could work

Black Hat: risks, objections, failure modes, and downsides

Green Hat: alternatives, reframes, and creative options

Blue Hat: moderation, synthesis, final recommendation, agreements, tensions, and next steps

The hats run in order so each perspective can build on the previous ones. Blue Hat moderates and synthesizes rather than contributing a normal debate statement during each round.

When To Use It

Use this skill when you want to pressure-test a decision, strategy, plan, architecture choice, product direction, or career move. It works best when the prompt is framed as a concrete decision or question.

Example prompts:

Run a six hats debate on whether we should migrate this app from REST to GraphQL. Write the output to ./decisions.

Use six hats to evaluate whether I should keep working on frontend tooling or move to an AI company. Save it in ./examples.

six-hats-skill

name: six-hats description: "Structured six-hats thinking sessions for debating decisions. Use when user says "six hats", "six hats debate", or wants to explore a decision through six colored-perspective lenses in sequential rounds with a final recommendation."

Six Hats Debate Skill

How It Works

The Six Hats

Debate Rules

Output Format

Six Hats Skill

What It Does

When To Use It

Examples

Career decision — frontend tooling vs. AI companies

Related Skills

Workflow

Hat Prompt Templates

White Hat (Facts)

Red Hat (Emotion)

Yellow Hat (Optimism)

Black Hat (Caution)

Green Hat (Creativity)

Blue Hat (Moderation)

Notes

Technology direction — React in 2026

Installation

Usage

Optional Script