think-process-tracing SKILL.md skillA
think-process-tracing 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-process-tracing@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-process-tracing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Oct 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 12, 2026
- Size
- 11,415 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- Apache-2.0
Evaluates rival causal explanations of a single case by typing each piece of within-case evidence by its diagnosticity (hoop, smoking-gun, straw-in-the-wind, doubly-decisive tests) against each rival's mechanism chain, then eliminating or confirming rivals item by item rather than by tallying. Use when one outcome has happened, several genuine rival explanations compete to explain it, and mechanism-level evidence (logs, timestamps, documents, who knew what when) is available to discriminate…
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 --> # Process Tracing (rival-explanation adjudication) When one thing has happened and several stories compete to explain why, the instinct is to tally evidence: pile up what supports each story and pick the side with the bigger pile. That rewards whichever explanation attracted the most loosely-relevant chatter. Process tracing refuses the tally. It weighs each piece of within-case evidence by its **diagnosticity** - its power to eliminate or confirm an explanation - so that one decisive observation outranks any amount of weak, ambiguous support. The durable move is to make each rival explanation concrete as a causal mechanism chain (the step-by-step way that story would have produced this outcome, and the observable fingerprints each step would leave), state those expected fingerprints **before** weighing the evidence, then type each piece of evidence by certainty (if the explanation is true, must we see this?) and uniqueness (could the rivals also produce it?). A single failed hoop test eliminates a rival no matter how much straw-in-the-wind support it had. The output… …
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How to install
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-process-tracing@sha256:26b23dadda1cae1dThe 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 2 versions of this file, between Jun 12, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, about one every 131 days.
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| v0.1.0 latest | 2026-10-21 | d1a4e2f | 11,415 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-06-12 | 8975a77 | 11,324 B | A | view |
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Source
product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills · 25 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nvq2ascu24b72lkj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-process-tracing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/26b23dadda1cae1d743dbbe98112ffb90c485cec115a78839d33c02e266b839c
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