analytical-thinking SKILL.md skillA
analytical-thinking from ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/analytical-thinking@v2026.10.5Pins 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/analytical-thinking/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v2026.10.5, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 18, 2026
- Size
- 3,332 bytes
- Repository stars
- 17
- License
- MIT
Use for analytical thinking, or when a question needs breaking down and evidence: "why did metric X drop?", "what drives this?", "break this down", "what data do we need?". Builds a tree, hypotheses and evidence, ends with an answer and key uncertainty. Skip for quick verdicts.
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
# Analytical Thinking Clarity beats cleverness. End with an answer tied to structure and a stated confidence. ## When to use - Explaining or predicting a number: a metric moved, a cost is high, a funnel leaks. - A messy question that needs a driver tree, hypotheses and a plan for what data to collect. - Comparing concrete alternatives against criteria when the user wants the reasoning laid out. Skip: open-ended idea generation with nothing to measure, or a short verdict with no decomposition asked for. ## Before you start 1. State in one block: **Analytical question** (precise, ideally falsifiable) and **Pass** (Frame, Decompose, Hypotheses, Evidence, Synthesis). 2. **Gather first.** If you can query data, read dashboards, logs or code, do that before listing Evidence. Ask up to 3 questions only for definitions or data that tools cannot supply. 3. **Light path.** Small ask: a 2-level tree, 2 hypotheses, one observation each, answer in 3 lines. 4. If the user is choosing among concrete options, insert an **Options matrix** after Evidence: rows are options, columns are criteria (state any weights), cells are `-`, `0` or `+` with a one-line reason. Then Synthesis. ## Steps …
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How to install
mdr add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/analytical-thinking@sha256:3ba421d89951173aThe 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.
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The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between May 18, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 35 days.
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| v2026.10.5 latest | 2026-10-05 | f2bebb8 | 3,332 B | A | view · diff |
| v2026.5.17 | 2026-05-18 | 1866e36 | 3,337 B | A | view · diff |
| v2026.5.17 | 2026-05-18 | ceb6606 | 3,250 B | A | view · diff |
| v2026.5.17 | 2026-05-18 | 6afc97b | 3,069 B | A | view · diff |
| v2026.5.17 | 2026-05-18 | 926b700 | 2,881 B | A | view |
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Source
ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
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