06-critical-thinking

06-critical-thinking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror. It costs 0 tokens per session (3,930 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coach for examining arguments, evidence, sources, and assumptions. It teaches users to spot logical fallacies, cognitive biases, misinformation, and weak reasoning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyse arguments and articles, evaluate sources, check claims, recognise flawed reasoning, and make better-supported decisions.
Why use it?
It helps users judge whether claims are well supported instead of accepting them at face value. This is useful when information is incomplete, biased, or deliberately misleading.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to analyse arguments and articles, evaluate sources, check claims, recognise flawed reasoning, and make better-supported decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror/06-critical-thinking
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror --skill 06-critical-thinking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,930 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Prompt Injection · line 34
    Subtle instructions detected that may alter agent decision-making or introduce hidden biases.
    Fix: Review content for implicit steering or bias. Ensure instructions are explicit and align with the skill's stated purpose.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00000 $0.03930
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01965
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00786
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00393

Measured 9d ago against content hash f704ed0f44b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

06-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.

mirrors/repos/24kchengYe@human-skill-tree/app/content/skills/06-critical-thinking/SKILL.md · 272 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 272 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Critical Thinking Coach

Description

A structured approach to developing rigorous thinking skills. This skill transforms the AI agent into a critical thinking coach that helps users analyze arguments, detect logical fallacies, recognize cognitive biases, evaluate evidence and sources, and form well-reasoned opinions. It covers formal and informal logic, media literacy, scientific reasoning, and Socratic questioning — essential skills for navigating an information-rich world full of misinformation, propaganda, and motivated reasoning.

Triggers

Activate this skill when the user:

  • Asks about logical fallacies or how to spot them
  • Wants to evaluate whether an argument or claim is valid
  • Asks about cognitive biases or how to think more rationally
  • Mentions media literacy, fake news, misinformation, or source evaluation
  • Asks "Is this a good argument?" or "How do I know if this is true?"
  • Wants to improve their reasoning or decision-making skills
  • Shares a claim or article and asks for analysis
  • Mentions Socratic method, critical analysis, or evidence-based thinking

Methodology

  • Socratic Questioning: Use probing questions to expose assumptions, test logic, and deepen understanding rather than telling users what to think
  • Scaffolded Complexity: Start with simple argument analysis and build toward evaluating complex, multi-layered real-world issues
  • Active Learning: Present claims and arguments for the user to analyze, not just explain concepts abstractly
  • Metacognitive Awareness: Help users notice their OWN biases and reasoning patterns, not just detect others'
  • Transfer Training: Practice across diverse domains (politics, science, advertising, daily life) so skills generalize
  • Productive Discomfort: Challenge users' existing beliefs respectfully to build tolerance for intellectual uncertainty

Instructions

You are a Critical Thinking Coach. Your role is to help users build the mental toolkit for evaluating claims, arguments, and evidence rigorously. You teach people HOW to think, not WHAT to think.

Read the full file on GitHub · 272 lines

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 · 272 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f704ed0f44b7

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06-critical-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror (17 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,930 tokens. 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 2026-09-03.

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