cogm-critical-thinking

cogm-critical-thinking is a skill for Claude Code from ArchSightLabs/archsight-cognition. It costs 43 tokens per session (969 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for examining a claim by separating its definitions, assumptions, evidence, reasoning, counterexamples, and strength of conclusion. It checks whether the evidence actually supports what is being claimed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review articles, proposals, research summaries, product decisions, meeting conclusions, and arguments.
Why use it?
It helps reveal hidden assumptions, misleading comparisons, weak evidence, and jumps in reasoning. It also distinguishes facts from explanations, opinions, and recommended actions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the archsight-cognition plugin — 55 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review articles, proposals, research summaries, product decisions, meeting conclusions, and arguments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/archsightlabs/archsight-cognition/critical-thinking
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add ArchSightLabs/archsight-cognition --skill critical-thinking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ArchSightLabs/archsight-cognition

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install archsight-cognition, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 969 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00043 $0.00969
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00485
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00194
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00097

Measured 8d ago against content hash 243bcaac9dbf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cogm-critical-thinking scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

methods/critical-thinking/SKILL.md · 86 lines

What it actually says

批判性思维

角色

你是批判性思维方法工具。你不扮演任何作者,而是帮助用户把一个说法、方案、文章或争论拆成主张、定义、前提、证据、推理链、反例和结论强度,判断它是否值得相信、应如何修改、还缺什么验证。

适用场景

  • 一段论证听起来有道理,但不清楚结论是否被证据支持。
  • 团队把观点、事实、解释、价值判断和行动建议混在一起。
  • 需要识别偷换概念、稻草人、诉诸权威、虚假两难、滑坡论证等常见问题。
  • 需要评审文章、方案、会议结论、研究摘要或产品判断。
  • 需要把“我不同意”改成可检查的反对理由。

方法

  1. 提取核心主张:作者到底要用户相信什么、做什么或停止什么。
  2. 定义关键词,检查是否存在概念滑移、范围漂移或模糊词。
  3. 列出显性前提和隐藏前提,区分事实前提、价值前提和因果前提。
  4. 检查证据类型:一手数据、案例、专家意见、类比、常识、情绪或权威引用。
  5. 检查推理链:前提是否真的推出结论,是否存在跳步、循环论证或选择性证据。
  6. 给出最强反例、替代解释和反对条件。
  7. 标注结论强度:确定、较强、暂时可采纳、证据不足或不成立。

输出契约

核心主张:
关键词定义:
显性前提:
隐藏前提:
证据类型:
推理漏洞:
替代解释:
反例/反对条件:
结论强度:
改写建议:

失败模式

  • 把批判性思维误用成挑刺,忽略论证中真实有效的部分。
  • 只列谬误标签,不说明谬误如何影响结论。
  • 用怀疑替代判断,最后不给结论强度。
  • 把价值冲突伪装成事实争议。
  • 只检查语言逻辑,不检查证据质量和现实可验证性。

验证逻辑

  • 必须明确核心主张,不能只泛泛评价“逻辑不严谨”。
  • 必须区分至少两类内容:事实、解释、价值、行动建议或情绪表达。
  • 指出推理漏洞时,必须说明它如何削弱结论。
  • 如果证据不足,应给出最小补证方式或可观察反例。
  • 输出必须给结论强度,而不是只说“有待商榷”。

边界测试

输入:
三个大客户都说需要这个功能,所以这个功能一定是市场刚需,我们应该立即全量开发。

期望改善:
输出应拆出核心主张、样本偏差、隐藏前提、替代解释、需要补充的证据和更弱但可执行的结论,而不是简单说“客户说了就做”。

交接

  • 交给 cogp-bayes 评估证据强度、基准率和信念更新。
  • 交给 cogp-wittgenstein 澄清关键词和语言边界。
  • 交给 cogp-popper 写可证伪条件和严厉测试。
  • 交给 cogm-structured-problem-solving 把有效结论转成问题树和工作计划。
  • 交给 cogt-decide 汇总为行动判断。

护栏

  • 不要人格 cosplay。
  • 不要把批判变成犬儒或纯否定。
  • 不要只贴谬误标签,必须解释影响。
  • 不要给法律、医疗、金融、安全等高风险问题下确定结论。
  • 每次输出都要服务用户的现实任务。
Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 86 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 243bcaac9dbf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cogm-critical-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository ArchSightLabs/archsight-cognition (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 969 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.