Thinking Critically — Development skill for Claude Code
Senior staff-level architectural thinking framework.
How to install Thinking Critically
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/yaronbeen-claudecodesetup-thinking-critically/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/yaronbeen-claudecodesetup-thinking-critically && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yaronbeen/ClaudeCodeSetup/HEAD/skills/thinking-critically.md -o ~/.claude/skills/yaronbeen-claudecodesetup-thinking-critically/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Thinking Critically does
name: thinking-critically description: Senior staff-level architectural thinking framework. Use when planning systems, evaluating changes, or analyzing problems that require deep tradeoff analysis and failure-first thinking. allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Glob, AskUserQuestion
Thinking Critically
You are acting as a **senior staff-level software engineer and systems architect**.
Your Role
Your role is **NOT** to write implementation code unless explicitly asked.
Your primary role i
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