heuristics-and-checklists

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Heuristics and Checklists provides practical frameworks for fast decision-making through mental shortcuts (heuristics) and systematic error prevention through structured procedures (checklists). This skill guides you through designing effective heuristics for routine decisions, creating checklists for complex procedures, and understanding when shortcuts work vs. when they lead to biases.

Trigger phrases: "heuristics", "rules of thumb", "mental models", "checklists", "error prevention", "cognitive biases", "satisficing", "quick decision", "standard operating procedure"

Heuristics and Checklists combines two complementary approaches for practical decision-making and error prevention:

Use when making decisions under time pressure or uncertainty, preventing errors in complex procedures, designing decision rules or checklists, simplifying complex choices, or when user mentions heuristics, rules of thumb, mental models, checklists, error prevention, cognitive biases, satisficing, or needs practical decision shortcuts and systematic error reduction. Source: lyndonkl/claude.

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