Polymath

Polymath split-brain research methodology. Maps the possibility space of open-ended problems by building a max-distance lens roster across three relatedness tiers (close/mid/far), composing polymath expert personas from the tiers, spawning N parallel sub-agents, then synthesizing their disagreements into a landscape map. TRIGGER when: the user explicitly invokes the technique ("polymath", "split-brain", "multiagency", "let's run agents to/for X", "remember our polymath multiagency"), OR when ALL of these are true: (a) the problem is research/strategy/framing-level, (b) the user has indicated framing uncertainty (not debugging), (c) the cost of picking the wrong frame is high, (d) the user has not already specified an approach. DO NOT TRIGGER when: debugging ("stuck on this regex/error/build/typo/merge conflict"), file/syntax lookups, single-answer questions, naming/styling micro-decisions, or anything where one direct answer would suffice. When the trigger match is ambiguous, ASK the user "split-brain this with ~10 polymath lenses, or just one targeted Agent?" -- one clarifying question is cheaper than 12 wasted spawns OR a missed framing discovery.

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/polymath
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/polymath/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/polymath/SKILL.md

@misc{polymath-2026,
  author    = {DROOdotFOO},
  title     = {Polymath [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/polymath/}
}