mk:sequential-thinking

mk:sequential-thinking is a skill for Claude Code from ngocsangyem/MeowKit. It costs 79 tokens per session (1,076 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A step-by-step reasoning method for investigating problems by forming hypotheses, testing them against evidence, and narrowing down the cause.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps with complex debugging, multi-step analysis, architecture decisions, and diagnosis before making a fix.
Why use it?
It reduces premature conclusions when a bug or design problem has several possible explanations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit It helps with complex debugging, multi-step analysis, architecture decisions, and diagnosis before making a fix.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ngocsangyem/meowkit/sequential-thinking
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ngocsangyem/MeowKit --skill sequential-thinking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ngocsangyem/MeowKit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,076 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 $0.00079 $0.01076
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00538
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00108

Measured 9d ago against content hash 598ddb1664e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mk:sequential-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 3 executable files (scripts/format-thought.js, scripts/process-thought.js, scripts/test-scripts.sh), 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.

.claude/skills/sequential-thinking/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sequential Thinking

Structured step-by-step reasoning with hypothesis generation, elimination, and revision capability.

When to Use

  • Complex problem requiring multi-step reasoning
  • Debugging where root cause isn't obvious
  • When mk:fix invokes diagnosis (Phase 3)
  • Architecture decisions with multiple trade-offs
  • Any situation where "I think it's X" needs evidence before acting

Do NOT use for: trivial fixes (typo, lint), single-file changes with obvious cause.

Process

  1. State the problem — what is observed vs expected
  2. Generate hypotheses — from evidence, NOT guessing. Each hypothesis needs: what evidence would confirm it, what would refute it
  3. Test hypotheses — use Grep/Read/Bash to find evidence for/against each
  4. Eliminate — mark each CONFIRMED, REFUTED, or INCONCLUSIVE with evidence
  5. Conclude — state root cause with confidence level + evidence chain
  6. Scope the fix — what must change to address root cause (not symptoms)

Adjust dynamically: expand if more complex than expected, contract if simpler.

Output Format

Use references/hypothesis-testing.md template. Key sections:

## Sequential Analysis: [problem]

### Hypotheses

| #   | Hypothesis | Evidence for | Evidence against | Status |
| --- | ---------- | ------------ | ---------------- | ------ |

### Root Cause

Confirmed: [root cause]
Confidence: [high/medium/low]
Evidence: [what confirms this]

### Fix Scope

[what must change — files, functions, logic]

Revision & Branching

When new evidence invalidates a previous conclusion:

  • Mark revision explicitly: [REVISION of Hypothesis N]: [correction + why]
  • When 2+ approaches viable: branch, evaluate each, converge with decision

Load references/core-patterns.md for revision/branching patterns. For advanced techniques (spiral refinement, multi-branch convergence): references/advanced-techniques.md For uncertainty + revision cascades: references/advanced-strategies.md For concrete examples: references/examples-debug.md, examples-api.md, examples-architecture.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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 · 125 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 598ddb1664e4

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mk:sequential-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository ngocsangyem/MeowKit (14 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,076 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.