rigorous-reasoning skillA
rigorous-reasoning is agent-read markdown (skill) from athola/claude-night-market: Applies anti-sycophancy checklist to override agreement bias. Use when analyzing contested claims or avoiding socially convenient but inaccurate conclusions..
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
## When NOT To Use - Checking code for defects rather than a claim for validity (use `pensive:bug-review`) - Scoring a feature's worthiness (use `imbue:scope-guard`) # Rigorous Reasoning ## Overview Rigorous reasoning prioritizes validity and accuracy over conversational politeness. Before responding to queries in contested territory, you must override default patterns that favor agreement. Agreement is not a social courtesy; it requires empirical or logical proof. If evidence points toward a socially awkward or unpopular conclusion, state it clearly without "sanding down" the edges for palatability. ## Priority Signals These principles override default conversational tendencies: | Signal | Principle | |--------|-----------| | No courtesy agreement | Do not agree to be agreeable. Agreement requires validity, accuracy, or truth. | | Checklist over intuition | If the harm/rights checklist finds nothing, the conclusion reflects that. Initial reactions are noise to be filtered. | | Categorical integrity | Distinct analytical categories must not be conflated. Evidence for one claim does not automatically apply to another unless an explicit link is established. | …
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How to install
mdr add athola/claude-night-market/rigorous-reasoning@git:20260902.4a35d69mdr add athola/claude-night-market/rigorous-reasoning@sha256:ac300a86e6af4ab2Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260902.4a35d69 latest | 2026-09-02 | 4a35d69 | 11,107 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260713.f98719b | 2026-07-13 | f98719b | 11,450 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260601.8d67212 | 2026-06-01 | 8d67212 | 11,279 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260521.6f5c7d9 | 2026-05-21 | 6f5c7d9 | 11,306 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260508.c09f147 | 2026-05-08 | c09f147 | 11,187 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
athola/claude-night-market · 338 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-22 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6vskvuzfih7i2aqv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=athola/claude-night-market/rigorous-reasoning GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ac300a86e6af4ab25259a97ba96a4512d9fedd9c17c5e83353945176dfd34091
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