sensemaking skillA
sensemaking is agent-read markdown (skill) from uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills: Check whether findings make sense before trusting or reporting them by comparing to the nearest reference, asking what mechanism could explain them, and naming a falsifier. Use when the agent is interpreting results, summarizing progress, assessing regressions, or deciding whether an observation should change the plan..
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What the file says
# Sensemaking ## Use It As A Default Habit - Compose this skill with domain skills instead of replacing them. - Use it whenever you are about to trust, summarize, or act on a finding. - Default question: does this result actually make sense, and if so, what should change because of it? ## Use This Output Contract When using this skill, structure the reasoning as: 1. Observation: what happened. 2. Expected: what you thought would happen instead. 3. Nearest reference: the baseline, sibling case, prior run, known-good path, or control. 4. Best explanation: the most plausible mechanism right now. 5. Falsifier: one observation that would seriously weaken that explanation. 6. Decision impact: what changes, or why nothing changes. 7. Baseline disposition: whether the nearest valid baseline remains active or has been superseded, and by what evidence. 8. Falsification scope: the exact hypothesis or changed delta rejected, plus the parent method or unchanged components that remain live. ## Apply These Rules - Separate observation from interpretation. - Compare against the nearest useful reference, not an abstract ideal. …
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How to install
mdr add uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/sensemaking@git:20260921.9b3de7cmdr add uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/sensemaking@sha256:fd261e7fb415ce23Pin 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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| git:20260921.9b3de7c latest | 2026-09-21 | 9b3de7c | 6,271 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.0e01ec7 | 2026-07-16 | 0e01ec7 | 3,950 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260320.999ac68 | 2026-03-20 | 999ac68 | 3,578 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · 20 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-23 · branch main
API
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