critical-reasoning

critical-reasoning is a skill for Claude Code from JordanCoin/ios-skills-collection. It costs 125 tokens per session (923 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A reasoning review method based on critical rationalism, an approach associated with Karl Popper and David Deutsch that tests ideas for errors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine a decision, check whether an explanation makes sense, or improve an idea.
Why use it?
It helps reveal weak assumptions, missing information, and flaws in an argument.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the ios-skills plugin — 198 skills, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to examine a decision, check whether an explanation makes sense, or improve an idea.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jordancoin/ios-skills-collection/andrewgleave-critical-reasoning
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 JordanCoin/ios-skills-collection --skill andrewgleave-critical-reasoning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JordanCoin/ios-skills-collection

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ios-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 198 skills, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for critical-reasoning

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for critical-reasoning

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 125 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 923 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 unknown 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 $0.00125 $0.00923
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00462
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00092

Measured 12d ago against content hash 816f33488b8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

critical-reasoning 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 12d 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.

skills/andrewgleave--critical-reasoning/SKILL.md · 72 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 12d ago First seen · 72 lines · 125 tokens per session scan A 816f33488b8e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

critical-reasoning is a skill published in the GitHub repository JordanCoin/ios-skills-collection (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), with no licence file. It adds 125 tokens to every session and 923 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.

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