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Critical Thinking.prompt

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critical-thinking-prompt-2.prompt

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description: "Apply structured skepticism to a problem, decision, or project"
application: "Evaluate decisions, challenge assumptions, detect bias, stress-test reasoning"
mode: agent
agent: Critical Thinker
currency: 2026-04-21
---

# Critical Thinking Analysis

Apply the 7 disciplines of structured skepticism to evaluate:

$ARGUMENTS

## Instructions

1. Load `.github/skills/critical-thinking/SKILL.md` for the full framework
2. Apply the Materiality Gate first — is deep analysis warranted?
3. Run relevant disciplines based on activation level:
   - **Medium** (recommendations, architecture): Disciplines 1, 2, 5
   - **High** (health, security, financial, irreversible): All 7
4. Produce structured output with alternative hypotheses, evidence assessment, bias check
5. State falsifiability: "Would revise if [specific condition]"
6. Run Devil's Advocate pass on strongest recommendation

when to use it

Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo fabioc-aloha/alex-cognitive-architecture (NOASSERTION). A "Critical Thinking.prompt" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.