triz-skills

Universal TRIZ Skills for Claude – open, structured, and future-proof

This repository contains a growing, curated library of TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) Skills for Anthropic’s Claude – covering both technical and business TRIZ, from Contradiction Analysis and Function Analysis to Trimming, the 76 Standard Solutions, Ideality, and Resource Analysis.

Every Skill is kept unzipped, one folder per Skill, so it can be read, edited, and extended with any standard text editor (e.g. VS Code, Notepad++, BBEdit) and collaborated on with normal Git workflows.

Maintained by Truinorva. Companion repository to triz-prompt-engineering.

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🌐 Purpose

Our goal is to make TRIZ knowledge usable and sustainable in the age of AI – platform-independent, transparent, and free from proprietary constraints.

This approach allows for:

• Reusable, agent-ready TRIZ methods that Claude can activate on demand
• Future-proof archiving and documentation in plain text
• Simplified integration into company-specific innovation workflows

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🔧 Key Features

• ✅ Self-contained Skills – each Skill is one folder with a SKILL.md plus optional references/ and assets/
• 📦 ZIP = release – develop unzipped in Git, ship as ZIPs built on demand and attached to a GitHub Release; no archives are stored in the repo (see Releasing)
• 🧭 Two families – technical-triz/ for engineering, business-triz/ for organizational and people-centric problems
• 📖 English-first, term-bilingual – content is written in English, with key terms also given in another language (e.g. German) so the AI handles terminology correctly
• ⚖️ MIT License – open use, including commercial applications
• 📁 Git-based collaboration – with versioning, issue tracking, and a curated main branch
• 🔀 Pull-request workflow – changes are made in a feature branch and merged into main via PR

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🧩 What is a Claude Skill?

A Skill is a folder that packages instructions, reference data, and optional helper scripts so Claude can reliably perform a specialized task. At minimum it contains a SKILL.md file with YAML frontmatter (a name and a description). Claude reads the description to decide when to activate the Skill, then follows the body of SKILL.md to do the work, loading files from references/ only as needed.

Claude distributes and installs Skills as ZIP archives. This repository keeps them unzipped for development and collaboration – releasing a Skill is simply zipping its folder.

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📂 Directory Structure

triz-skills/
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├── docs/                         # placeholder; the authoring & packaging guidance is in this README
├── scripts/
│   └── build_skills.py           # packages every Skill folder into a release ZIP
├── .github/workflows/