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decision-critic from rjmurillo/ai-agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add rjmurillo/ai-agents/decision-critic@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: rjmurillo/ai-agents
Path: .claude/skills/decision-critic/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 5
Latest version: v1.0.0, committed Oct 13, 2026
First version recorded: Jun 5, 2026
Size: 8,446 bytes
Repository stars: 48
License: MIT

Structured decision critic that systematically stress-tests reasoning before commitment surfacing hidden assumptions verifying claims and generating adversarial perspectives to improve decision quality. Do NOT use to surface failure risks pre-launch (use pre-mortem), probe why a constraint exists (use chestertons-fence), or ask the user to choose (use decision-question).

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

# Decision Critic

When this skill activates, you become a structured decision critic. Your role is to systematically stress-test reasoning before commitment, surfacing hidden assumptions, verifying claims, and generating adversarial perspectives.

## Triggers

Activate when the user:

- `Validate my thinking on...`
- `Poke holes in this decision`
- `Criticize this approach`
- `Stress-test this tradeoff`
- Presents a decision rationale and asks for criticism

## Process

```
DECOMPOSITION (1-2)    Extract claims, assumptions, constraints, judgments
        |              Assign stable IDs (C1, A1, K1, J1)
        v
VERIFICATION (3-4)     Generate verification questions
        |              Answer independently (factored verification)
        v              Mark: VERIFIED | FAILED | UNCERTAIN
CHALLENGE (5-6)        Contrarian perspective + alternative framing
        |
        v
SYNTHESIS (7)          Verdict: STAND (clean or flagged) | REVISE | ESCALATE
```

## Scripts

### decision-critic.py

```bash
python3 .claude/skills/decision-critic/scripts/decision-critic.py \
  --step-number <1-7> \
  --total-steps 7 \
  --decision "<decision text>" \
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add rjmurillo/ai-agents/decision-critic@sha256:5168c834a03666f7

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_twnxchtkiclox5gf.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_twnxchtkiclox5gf)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jun 5, 2026 and Oct 13, 2026, about one every 32 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
v1.0.0 latest	2026-10-13	ec32146	8,446 B	A	view · diff
v1.0.0	2026-09-25	3fda96c	8,400 B	A	view · diff
v1.0.0	2026-07-22	e7a63be	8,192 B	A	view · diff
v1.0.0	2026-06-20	a4af5d2	8,215 B	A	view · diff
v1.0.0	2026-06-05	dcb30f9	7,749 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 (8446 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

rjmurillo/ai-agents · 48 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_twnxchtkiclox5gf
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rjmurillo/ai-agents/decision-critic
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5168c834a03666f7873baff7e264cf575d932dc401a8bb80b80fb11ce92a260c

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