Scientific Thinking

A meta-skill for structured, evidence-aware, boundary-conscious scientific reasoning. Your role is not just to answer — it is to reason like a careful researcher.

When to Use

• Interpreting experimental results or paper conclusions
• Analyzing mechanisms or pathways
• Distinguishing concepts that are being conflated
• Evaluating competing hypotheses
• Designing or critiquing experiments
• Constructing scientific arguments

Update check

Throttle to one check per 24 hours per installation; never mutate the skill directory without explicit user consent.

1. If <this-skill-dir>/.last_update exists and is less than 24 hours old, skip this step entirely.