scientific-critical-thinking

scientific-critical-thinking is a skill for Claude Code from Lord1Egypt/scientific-agent-toolkit. It costs 63 tokens per session (4,778 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of scientific-critical-thinking, MIT.

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

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess experiments, research papers, systematic reviews, and claims using evidence-grading and risk-of-bias methods.
Why use it?
It helps reveal weaknesses such as biased study designs, confounding factors, invalid statistics, or conclusions that go beyond the data.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to assess experiments, research papers, systematic reviews, and claims using evidence-grading and risk-of-bias methods.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lord1egypt/scientific-agent-toolkit/scientific-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 Lord1Egypt/scientific-agent-toolkit --skill scientific-critical-thinking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lord1Egypt/scientific-agent-toolkit

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 4,778 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 $0.04778
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 4d4a5840cb4b, 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/generate_schematic_ai.py, scripts/generate_schematic.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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 — 47 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.

scientific-skills/scientific-critical-thinking/SKILL.md · 571 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 571 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 · 571 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 · 571 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 4d4a5840cb4b

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scientific-critical-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lord1Egypt/scientific-agent-toolkit (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 4,778 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 47 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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