# AI Skill: First Principles Reasoning

## Purpose
Equip an agent with the capability to **reduce a problem to foundational truths** and recombine them into novel solutions.

## When to Use
- Deep innovation tasks
- Complex constraint problems
- When analogical or inherited reasoning fails

## Skill Description
This skill instructs the agent to:
1. Identify **fundamental principles** underlying a problem.
2. Break assumptions through techniques like Socratic questioning or Five‑Whys.
3. Rebuild solution‑space from the bottom up.

## Input
- Target problem
- Ontological assumptions (if any)

## Output
- Base principles
- Derived solution hypotheses

## Technique
Perform iterative questioning to reveal foundational truths, then synthesize them into novel configurations.