think-ladder-of-inference-check SKILL.md skillA
think-ladder-of-inference-check from product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-ladder-of-inference-check@v0.1.0Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills
- Path
skills/think-ladder-of-inference-check/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Jun 1, 2026
- Size
- 3,790 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- Apache-2.0
Produces an annotated reasoning trace that reconstructs how a conclusion was reached, from the observable data, to the data actually selected, to the meaning and assumptions added, then flags the riskiest leap and tests an alternative interpretation. Use when a conclusion feels certain but rests on interpretation, or to audit a contested inference.
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
<!-- thinking-framework-skills | https://github.com/product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills | Apache-2.0 --> # Ladder of Inference Check People move from observation to action up an invisible, near-instant ladder: all available data, the data they select, the meaning they add, the assumptions they make, the conclusion they draw, the action they take. The leaps feel like facts. This skill slows the climb back down for a given conclusion: it reconstructs the rungs, exposes where selection and interpretation crept in, flags the riskiest leap, and tests at least one alternative interpretation of the same data. The output is an **annotated reasoning trace**, not prose. ## When to Use - A conclusion feels certain but actually rests on interpretation. - A disagreement traces to two people reading the same situation differently. - Auditing a contested inference, including the agent's own conclusion. - As a step in a reasoning-audit workflow, often after an evidence/inference sort. ## When NOT to Use - The conclusion follows from direct, verifiable data with no real inferential leap. - To generate ideas or options (wrong tool). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-ladder-of-inference-check@sha256:4480bb5c294654b5The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 1, 2026.
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Source
product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills · 25 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
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