critical-thinking SKILL.md skillA
critical-thinking from tronghieu/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tronghieu/agent-skills/critical-thinking@git:20260905.623c278Pins git:20260905.623c278 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tronghieu/agent-skills
- Path
skills/critical-thinking/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260905.623c278, committed Sep 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 12, 2026
- Size
- 12,000 bytes
- Repository stars
- 100
- License
- MIT
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…
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
# 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 …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tronghieu/agent-skills/critical-thinking@sha256:acc60b70f3d7f9b6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260905.623c278, 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 Jul 12, 2026 and Sep 5, 2026, about one every 55 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260905.623c278 latest | 2026-09-05 | 623c278 | 12,000 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260712.3731a46 | 2026-07-12 | 3731a46 | 12,857 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12000 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
tronghieu/agent-skills · 100 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yo5kxr6bgylva7nl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tronghieu/agent-skills/critical-thinking GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/acc60b70f3d7f9b616c7c3f4a495a9f39e7201d264ee0abd529577200a7b22b5
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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