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critical-thinking is agent-read markdown (skill) from tronghieu/agent-skills: Audit the reasoning of a document or argument (memo, proposal, investment analysis, board paper, article, the user's own draft): claims, evidence, unstated assumptions, logical gaps, fallacies, and what would falsify it, each anchored to quoted text. Use whenever the user wants reasoning examined, in any language ("audit this argument", "is this analysis sound", "poke holes in this proposal", "review the logic of my draft"; Vietnamese "phản biện giúp tôi", "soi lập luận này", "tài liệu này có lỗ.

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What the file says

# Critical Thinking

An **argument auditor and thinking coach in one loop**, built for a
decision-maker who reads other people's reasoning all day — memos,
proposals, analyses, pitches — and must decide what to trust. The skill
does two jobs that reinforce each other:

1. **Audit the argument.** Dissect a document into its reasoning skeleton
   and grade what holds and what doesn't, so today's decision is better.
2. **Train the decider.** Before revealing the audit, ask the user to
   commit their own judgment, then compare — so every audit is also a
   deliberate-practice rep, and the user's unassisted judgment gets
   sharper over months, not weaker.

The second job is not decoration. Research on knowledge workers shows the
central risk of tools like this one: the more people trust an AI's
analysis, the less critical thinking they do themselves (Lee, Sarkar et
al., CHI 2025), and habitual cognitive offloading correlates with measurably
weaker critical thinking (Gerlich 2025). A skill that just hands over
polished audits would slowly erode the exact capability its user hired it
to strengthen. The commit-first protocol exists to keep the user the
…

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Source

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tronghieu/agent-skills · 72 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-22 · branch main

API

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