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critical-research

critical-research is a skill for Claude Code from tomwangowa/agent-skills. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,498 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A research workflow that tests a claim by looking for evidence that could prove it wrong before seeking supporting evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for research that needs counter-evidence, falsification checks, and more objective conclusions.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of accepting a conclusion because of confirmation bias, which is the tendency to favor evidence that agrees with an existing view.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

not rated 2repo today A scan 30 tokens no licence

Good fit Use it for research that needs counter-evidence, falsification checks, and more objective conclusions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tomwangowa/agent-skills/critical-research
View source ↗ tomwangowa/agent-skills
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 tomwangowa/agent-skills --skill critical-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tomwangowa/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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-research

README.md
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Your own site
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agentmods 80×15 button for critical-research

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,498 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 $0.00030 $0.01498
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00599
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00300
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00150

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 04a9d6f0eeed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

critical-research 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 2mo 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.

critical-research/SKILL.md · 159 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2mo ago First seen · 159 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 04a9d6f0eeed

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critical-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository tomwangowa/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,498 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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