scientific-critical-thinking

scientific-critical-thinking is a skill for Claude Code from foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills. It costs 63 tokens per session (4,779 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of scientific-critical-thinking, Apache-2.0.

A framework for judging the quality of scientific claims and the evidence behind them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess experiments, research papers, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and evidence using methods such as GRADE and Cochrane risk-of-bias assessment.
Why use it?
It helps identify weak study designs, bias, confounding factors, statistical problems, and conclusions that go beyond the available evidence.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python scripts/generate_schematic.py "your diagram description" -o figures/output.png.

Good fit Use it to assess experiments, research papers, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and evidence using methods such as GRADE and Cochrane risk-of-bias assessment.

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About the project

Vibe-Skills is a collection and routing system that helps AI agents discover, select, and coordinate specialized skills for completing tasks. It is intended for agents that need to organize workflows across many installed capabilities. The catalogue entries are skills and an agent belonging to this system.

foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills · 3,252 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/foryourhealth111-pixel/vibe-skills/scientific-critical-thinking

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,779 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 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00063 $0.04779
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.02389
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00956
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00478

Measured 9d ago against content hash df53105c317a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scientific-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 9d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to scientific-critical-thinking — 48 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

bundled/skills/scientific-critical-thinking/SKILL.md · 570 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 570 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scientific Critical Thinking

Overview

Critical thinking is a systematic process for evaluating scientific rigor. Assess methodology, experimental design, statistical validity, biases, confounding, and evidence quality using GRADE and Cochrane ROB frameworks. Apply this skill for critical analysis of scientific claims.

When to Use This Skill

This skill should be used when:

  • Evaluating research methodology and experimental design
  • Assessing statistical validity and evidence quality
  • Identifying biases and confounding in studies
  • Reviewing scientific claims and conclusions
  • Conducting systematic reviews or meta-analyses
  • Applying GRADE or Cochrane risk of bias assessments
  • Providing critical analysis of research papers

Visual Enhancement with Scientific Schematics

When creating documents with this skill, always consider adding scientific diagrams and schematics to enhance visual communication.

If your document does not already contain schematics or diagrams:

  • Use the scientific-schematics skill to generate AI-powered publication-quality diagrams
  • Simply describe your desired diagram in natural language
  • Nano Banana Pro will automatically generate, review, and refine the schematic

For new documents: Scientific schematics should be generated by default to visually represent key concepts, workflows, architectures, or relationships described in the text.

How to generate schematics:

python scripts/generate_schematic.py "your diagram description" -o figures/output.png

The AI will automatically:

  • Create publication-quality images with proper formatting
  • Review and refine through multiple iterations
  • Ensure accessibility (colorblind-friendly, high contrast)
  • Save outputs in the figures/ directory

When to add schematics:

  • Critical thinking framework diagrams
  • Bias identification decision trees
  • Evidence quality assessment flowcharts
  • GRADE assessment methodology diagrams
  • Risk of bias evaluation frameworks
  • Validity assessment visualizations
  • Any complex concept that benefits from visualization

Read the full file on GitHub · 570 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 9d ago First seen · 570 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A df53105c317a

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scientific-critical-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills (3,252 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 4,779 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to scientific-critical-thinking, differing in 48 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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