extended-thinking-architect SKILL.md skillA
extended-thinking-architect from borghei/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add borghei/claude-skills/extended-thinking-architect@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- borghei/claude-skills
- Path
engineering/extended-thinking-architect/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 23, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 29, 2026
- Size
- 7,429 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,075
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
This skill should be used when the user asks to "decide reasoning effort", "set a thinking budget", "when to use extended thinking", "tune reasoning vs cost", or "should this task use a reasoning model".
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Extended Thinking Architect > **Category:** Engineering > **Domain:** AI Engineering ## Overview The **Extended Thinking Architect** skill helps you decide *when* an LLM task should spend a reasoning/thinking budget, *how much* (no-thinking / low / medium / high), and when the better move is a cheaper model with a sharper prompt instead. It turns task signals — error cost, ambiguity, step count, latency budget — into a deterministic recommendation with a rough cost multiplier, and allocates effort across the phases of an agent loop so you front-load reasoning where it pays and avoid runaway budgets. ## Clarify First Before recommending an effort level, settle the inputs below. When one is missing or vague and would change the result, ask about it; when it wouldn't, use a sensible default and say which one you used. - **Task type & verifiability:** what the model is actually doing (extraction, classification, planning, code-debug, math…) and whether the output is checkable (sets `--task-type` and `--verifiable`). - **Cost of a wrong answer:** how expensive a bad output is, plus the latency budget the task must fit (sets `--error-cost` and `--latency-budget`). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add borghei/claude-skills/extended-thinking-architect@sha256:6c80899005a7049bThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_eh74pb4gx7zhjwsd)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 29, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026, about one every 58 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-10-23 | 1b15d44 | 7,429 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-23 | 2b5180a | 5,835 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-29 | 5e4f0f8 | 5,732 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7429 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
borghei/claude-skills · 1,075 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_eh74pb4gx7zhjwsd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=borghei/claude-skills/extended-thinking-architect GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6c80899005a7049b61b8d9d8431d74bb7e0357ecce658d5156cebff9e4f6a81f
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.