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This is where the real-time thinking happens: frame design, eval problems, trap-hunting, and neurodivergence-inspired research on reasoning architectures. If you've got opinions on premature convergence, cognitive frames, or just want to argue about the next eval problem — come argue with us live.

👉 Join the ADHD community → as a contributor, maintainer, early adopter, or just a member. One short form. We coordinate frame contributions, eval problems, integrations, and adopter onboarding there.

An architectural fix for premature convergence in autoregressive reasoning.

Linear Chain-of-Thought anchors on whatever it says first. Tree-of-Thought widens the search but still walks a single shared context, so the anchoring persists across branches. ADHD treats this as an architectural problem, not a prompting one — it spawns N isolated reasoning processes under deliberately distorted cognitive frames, with zero shared context during divergence, then runs a separate critic pass to score, cluster, prune traps, and deepen the survivors.

Reach for it on design decisions, fuzzy debugging, naming, API surface design, strategy, and any prompt of the shape "give me a few ways to…".

📄 Preprint: ADHD: Parallel Divergent Ideation for Coding Agents · 👤 Author: Udit Akhouri — @akhouriudit · LinkedIn

One eval problem, same model, two strategies. Full transcripts in bench/results.json.

Problem. "We have a CLI that calls an LLM and it sometimes hangs for 90 seconds. Design the right retry/timeout/UX strategy."

Independent LLM judge on this problem: breadth 9 vs 6, novelty 8 vs 3, trap detection ~8 vs ~2. Methodology in documentation/evals.md.

• 🔌 Adopted by repowire — the first OSS project to officially ship ADHD. Its maintainer ported the framework onto repowire's mesh-orchestrator primitives in PR #313 (merged): frames become frame-shifted temp peers, the generator/critic split maps onto separate peers vs. the orchestrator's own turn, attribution via metadata.based-on (MIT).
• 📰 The New Stack ran a feature story on ADHD for Claude Code.
• 💬 OpenClaw / multi-agent community is independently testing it across agents. One tester: "I read it, installed it on two different agents… I actually love it. This is great. I thought this was gonna be another useless post. But no, it wasn't."
• 🔬 An independent evidence-based research review (11 sources, 8 validation rounds) was published against the method — findings tracked openly as issues #16–#18.

👉 Join the ADHD community → as a contributor, maintainer, early adopter, or just a member. One short form. We coordinate frame contributions, eval problems, integrations, and adopter onboarding there.

Projects that officially ship or integrate ADHD:

Shipping ADHD in your project? Open a PR adding it here, or open an issue and we'll add you.

One command, auto-detects your agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Antigravity, Codex, Cline, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, and ~50 more):

npx skills add UditAkhourii/adhd

Then invoke explicitly with /adhd "your problem", or let it auto-trigger on ideation intents.

If the universal command above fails to register inside Codex (some Codex builds discover skills from a specific path), force the target:

npx skills add UditAkhourii/adhd -a codex -g

Or install manually into Codex's skills directory:

mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills/adhd
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UditAkhourii/adhd/main/skills/adhd/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.codex/skills/adhd/SKILL.md

Restart Codex. /adhd "design a rate limiter" should now route through the skill. The skill ships with a single-line description (≤600 chars) specifically because some Codex builds truncate or reject multi-line YAML block descriptions.

CLI and library installs, manual curl for other agents, and per-platform paths are in documentation/install.md.

npm install -g adhd-agent     # CLI
npm install adhd-agent        # library

adhd "design a rate limiter that survives a leader election"
adhd "name this function" --frames 3 --ideas 8 --top 2

import { run, renderText } from "adhd-agent";

const result = await run({ problem: "How should we shard this queue under bursty load?", framesPerRun: 5, topK: 3 });
console.log(renderText(result));
// result.shortlist · result.nonObviousPick · result.traps · result.deepened · result.clusters

Full reference: documentation/api.md.

A two-phase loop with a hard wall between the phases.

1. Diverge. Pick N cognitive frames. Spawn N parallel, isolated Agent calls — each sees the problem plus one frame's vantage prompt, and a system prompt that forbids evaluation. Branches never see each other, so no anchoring.
2. Focus. A separate critic call scores every idea (novelty / viability / fit), flags traps with reasons, clusters by underlying angle, and deepens the top-K survivors into sketches with risks and first steps.

The generator-critic split is mechanical — separate LLM calls with opposite system prompts — not promised in one prompt. Deep dive: documentation/how-it-works.md. How it differs from CoT and ToT: documentation/vs-cot-and-tot.md.

Mean scores across 6 open-ended engineering problems (0–10), ADHD vs a single-shot baseline at the same model, judged by an independent LLM with a skeptical-staff-engineer prompt, A/B order randomized.

ADHD wins 5 of 6 problems. Biggest gap is trap detection — baselines rarely name the seductive-but-broken ideas. Methodology, limitations, and how to reproduce: documentation/evals.md.

Also: SKILL.md (the runnable skill) · SOURCE-SPEC.md (original spec) · CONTRIBUTING.md · the preprint.

• Han plugin compatibility analysis by @mxriverlynn — evidence-based review using Han's own /research skill, 11 sources, 8 validation rounds. Findings tracked as issues #16, #17, #18.
• A measured duel vs. single-shot by Shichinomiya (@shichinomiya_s) — independent blind-scored benchmark (2 problems, LLM-as-judge, A/B positions swapped). ADHD won both, with the biggest gains in novelty (4.5→9.0) and trap detection (5.0→9.0), at a real cost of ~2.3× time and ~1.9× output.

MIT License.

ADHD operationalizes the Divergent Ideation source spec (SOURCE-SPEC.md). The runnable skill is at skills/adhd/SKILL.md.

Udit Akhouri — author of the preprint and maintainer.

adhdstack.github.io · @akhouriudit · LinkedIn · researchudit@gmail.com · @UditAkhourii

Open to collaboration with research labs and applied-AI teams working on reasoning, planning, and agentic systems.