Critical Thinking

Skill: critical-thinking

What I do

I enforce rigorous thinking: challenge claims with evidence, spot weak reasoning, find trade-offs, and test assumptions rather than trusting intuition.

When to use me

• Evaluating architectural or design proposals for gaps or weak points
• Reviewing code for subtle logic errors or missing edge cases
• When high-confidence claims need validation
• During root cause analysis in incidents (verify conclusions)

Core principles

1. Question every claim—what's the evidence?
2. Find weak points—every design has trade-offs; identify them
3. Test with edge cases—how does solution fail?
4. Consider alternatives—what else could work?
5. Demand evidence—measurement over intuition

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