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critical-thinking from ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/critical-thinking@v2026.10.5

Pins v2026.10.5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills
Path: skills/critical-thinking/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 5
Latest version: v2026.10.5, committed Oct 5, 2026
First version recorded: May 18, 2026
Size: 3,935 bytes
Repository stars: 17
License: MIT

Use for critical thinking, or when the user wants a claim, plan or decision checked for weak spots: "is this right?", "what am I missing?", "poke holes", "sanity check", "devil's advocate", "red team this". Skip for execution-only tasks and wording edits.

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

# Critical Thinking

Disciplined inquiry that keeps **description** apart from **evaluation**: surface assumptions, weigh evidence, test logic, consider alternatives, then give a proportionate conclusion. If the conventional view is well supported, say so. This is inquiry, not contrarianism.

## When to use

- The user asks whether a claim, argument, plan, estimate or belief holds up.
- Phrases like "what am I missing", "steelman", "red team", "devil's advocate", "bias check", "is my reasoning sound".
- A decision about to be made on thin or one-sided evidence.

Skip: execution-only tasks, wording or tone edits, open-ended brainstorming with no request to audit reasons.

## Before you start

1. State in one block: **Focus** (the claim or plan under review) and **Pass** (Clarify, Information, Assumptions, Reasoning, Alternatives, Conclusion).
2. **Gather first.** If you can read the repo, docs or data, check them before marking anything `[MISSING]`. Ask up to 3 questions only for what tools cannot answer.
3. **Light path.** Small ask: 1-3 lines per phase, same order, Conclusion always included.

## Phases

### 1. Clarify
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/critical-thinking@sha256:7c038b48d67a8e10

The line at the top of this page pins the label v2026.10.5, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_fwmxeiw6ydvxuyah.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_fwmxeiw6ydvxuyah)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between May 18, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 35 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
v2026.10.5 latest	2026-10-05	f2bebb8	3,935 B	A	view · diff
v2026.5.18	2026-05-18	1866e36	5,669 B	A	view · diff
v2026.5.18	2026-05-18	5b9b5e1	5,582 B	A	view · diff
v2026.5.18	2026-05-18	96b2d1b	5,392 B	A	view · diff
v2026.5.18	2026-05-18	ff5641a	4,507 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3935 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

GitHub

ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fwmxeiw6ydvxuyah
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/critical-thinking
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7c038b48d67a8e105ef68fc271b62405b6fc8d06f602d2fb41d26e2d5af79c9e

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