critical-thinking

critical-thinking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OneDro1d/dark-factory. It costs 90 tokens per session (2,406 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review method for questioning implementation plans, architecture choices, technical decisions, and testing strategies. It examines the assumptions behind a decision and checks important claims against documentation, evidence, and basic reasoning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when evaluating a roadmap, system design, technology choice, performance or security claim, or test strategy. It helps identify what must be verified and what could make the decision wrong.
Why use it?
Plans can hide unsupported assumptions, risks, gaps, or outdated information. Challenging those points before implementation can prevent expensive design and technology mistakes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it when evaluating a roadmap, system design, technology choice, performance or security claim, or test strategy. It helps identify what must be verified and what could make the decision wrong.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/onedro1d/dark-factory/critical-thinking
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add OneDro1d/dark-factory --skill critical-thinking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OneDro1d/dark-factory

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,406 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 $0.00090 $0.02406
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.01203
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00481
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00241

Measured 9d ago against content hash 10a90dec4cd2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

skills/critical-thinking/SKILL.md · 293 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 293 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Critical Thinking

Systematically question implementation plans, architecture decisions, and technical assumptions to surface risks, gaps, and unverified claims before they become problems.

Overview

This skill proactively engages when reviewing:

  • Implementation plans and roadmaps
  • Architecture and design decisions
  • Technology choices and trade-offs
  • Performance and scalability claims
  • Security assumptions
  • Testing strategies

Core Principle

"What evidence supports this decision? What could make it wrong?"

Every technical decision rests on assumptions. This skill surfaces those assumptions and verifies them against:

  1. Web search — Current best practices, known issues, benchmarks
  2. Existing documentation — CLAUDE.md, design docs, prior decisions
  3. Architectural principles — From microservices-architect and any platform-specific service-planner skill
  4. First principles — Does this make logical sense?

The VERIFY Framework

For every significant claim or decision, apply:

Step Action Question
Validate Check the source Where does this claim come from? Is it authoritative?
Evidence Seek supporting data What evidence exists? What's the sample size?
Risks Identify failure modes What happens if this assumption is wrong?
Impact Assess consequences How severe are the consequences of being wrong?
Falsify Try to disprove What would prove this claim false?
Yield Decide and document Accept, reject, or flag for more research?

Activation Triggers

This skill activates when encountering:

Direct Triggers

  • "Let's use X because it's faster"
  • "This should scale to Y users"
  • "The best practice is to..."
  • "Everyone uses X for this"
  • "This is the industry standard"
  • "We don't need to worry about..."

Contextual Triggers

  • Reviewing implementation plans
  • Evaluating architecture decisions
  • Assessing technology choices
  • Analyzing performance claims
  • Reviewing security approaches

Read the full file on GitHub · 293 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 9d ago First seen · 293 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 10a90dec4cd2

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critical-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository OneDro1d/dark-factory (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 2,406 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-01.