Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to NikitaDmitrieff/auto-co-meta. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NikitaDmitrieff/auto-co-meta/main/.claude/skills/scientific-critical-thinking/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NikitaDmitrieff/auto-co-metaWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nikitadmitrieff/auto-co-meta/scientific-critical-thinking)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nikitadmitrieff/auto-co-meta/scientific-critical-thinking"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nikitadmitrieff/auto-co-meta/scientific-critical-thinking/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nikitadmitrieff/auto-co-meta/scientific-critical-thinking"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nikitadmitrieff/auto-co-meta/scientific-critical-thinking.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00040 | $0.04745 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00020 | $0.02372 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00949 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00475 |
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 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.
This is a copy
92% identical to scientific-critical-thinking — 49 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 567 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
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.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 567 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A ff731dfbd9c5
scientific-critical-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository NikitaDmitrieff/auto-co-meta (43 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 4,745 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 49 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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