Triz
- 76 installs
- 325 repo stars
- Updated August 2, 2026
- athola/claude-night-market
Break out of local optima by applying TRIZ cross-domain analogies when a developer is stuck on an inventive or architectural problem.
About
triz is a claude-night-market agent skill that applies Altshuller’s Theory of Inventive Problem Solving through cross-domain analogical reasoning. Solo builders install it when a feature, architecture, or growth mechanic feels boxed in and compromise trades keep making things worse. The skill walks through an Ideal Final Result, names technical contradictions (improving X worsens Y), handles physical contradictions with separation in time, space, condition, or scale, and escalates analysis depth from a single adjacent field up to five distant fields with principle suggestions. It is intentionally not a literature-review or ripgrep replacement—use other channels for known solutions. Because triggers are “stuck and need inventive perspectives,” it belongs journey-wide even though Prism shelves it first under Idea research for discovery workflows.
- Altshuller TRIZ workflow: Ideal Final Result, technical and physical contradictions, separation principles
- Four depth levels—light (1 field) through maximum (5 fields) with optional matrix lookup
- Explicit When NOT To Use guardrails versus standard code search or obvious solutions
- Field-mapping step to pull inventive patterns from domains outside your current stack
- Designed for agent invocation when stuck, not for routine documentation or lint fixes
Triz by the numbers
- 76 all-time installs (skills.sh)
- Ranked #1,473 of 3,282 Productivity & Planning skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
- Security screen: MEDIUM risk (skills.sh audit)
- Data as of Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
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| Installs | 76 |
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| repo stars | ★ 325 |
| Security audit | 2 / 3 scanners passed |
| Last updated | August 2, 2026 |
| Repository | athola/claude-night-market ↗ |
What it does
Break out of local optima by applying TRIZ cross-domain analogies when a developer is stuck on an inventive or architectural problem.
Files
TRIZ Cross-Domain Analysis
When To Use
- Stuck on a problem and need perspectives from other domains
- Exploring cross-domain analogies for inventive solutions
When NOT To Use
- Standard code search or literature review (use other
tome channels)
- Problems with obvious, well-known solutions
Apply Altshuller's Theory of Inventive Problem Solving to find solutions from adjacent fields.
Depth Levels
| Depth | Fields | Analysis |
|---|---|---|
| light | 1 | Ideality and contradiction |
| medium | 2 | Ideality, contradiction, field mapping |
| deep | 3 | Adds principle suggestions and separation |
| maximum | 5 | Adds distant fields and optional matrix lookup |
Workflow
1. State the Ideal Final Result: the function delivered without the system existing. Ask what would make the system unnecessary while the function still happens. 2. Formulate the technical contradiction: improving X worsens Y. For a physical contradiction (one parameter pulled toward two opposite values), apply separation in time, space, condition, or system/scale instead of compromise. 3. Map to adjacent fields using the field taxonomy. 4. Search for solved analogues in those fields. 5. Build bridge mappings with rationale and a confidence score.
Field Mapping Strategy
- Software architecture: civil engineering, biology
- Data structures: logistics, materials science
- Algorithms: operations research, genetics
- Security: military strategy, immunology
- Financial: game theory, ecology
Related
TRIZ is the analogical method in the broader ideation catalog. For diverse, category-spanning ideation with rotation, see Skill(tome:ideate).
Limitations
- The built-in contradiction catalog maps common software
trade-offs to principles. It is a convenience mapping rather than part of the classical TRIZ Body of Knowledge, which is scoped to technological systems.
- The optional canonical matrix is a sparse subset of
Altshuller's 39x39 engineering-parameter table. It has been frozen since 1985 and uses engineering, not software, parameters. Treat it as a cross-check, not the primary source.
- An empty matrix cell does not mean "no solution". By the
empty-box convention, any of the 40 principles may apply.
- The strongest, most portable parts of TRIZ are the 40
principles as a divergence checklist and Ideality as a framing question. ARIZ, Substance-Field analysis, the 76 standard solutions, the Laws of Technical Systems Evolution (S-curves), and Function-Oriented Search (FOS) are out of scope here.
Sources
- TRIZ Body of Knowledge (MATRIZ) and the classical
contradiction matrix (matriz.org).
- AutoTRIZ (arXiv 2403.13002, 2024): LLM-driven TRIZ ideation.
- TRIZ Agents (arXiv 2506.18783, 2025): multi-agent LLM orchestration
across TRIZ steps; companion to AutoTRIZ.
- The vendored canonical 39x39 matrix subset comes from
NickScherbakov/Heinrich-The-Inventing-Machine (Apache-2.0); see src/tome/channels/triz_data/NOTICE for attribution and the exact vendored scope.
Exit Criteria
- [ ] An Ideal Final Result statement is produced before the
search begins.
- [ ] A technical contradiction is stated as "improving X
worsens Y" (or a physical contradiction is named with a separation axis).
- [ ] At least one cross-domain bridge with a confidence
score is returned per active adjacent field, or the field is explicitly reported as yielding nothing.
- [ ] When the canonical matrix is consulted, an empty cell
is reported as "any of the 40 may apply", not as "no solution".
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