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scientific-critical-thinking

Evaluate scientific claims and evidence quality. Use for assessing experimental design validity, identifying biases and confounders, applying evidence grading frameworks (GRADE, Cochrane Risk of Bias), or teaching critical analysis. Best for understanding evidence quality, identifying flaws. For formal peer review writing use peer-review.

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Quality

67%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

96%

1.02x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

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Advisory

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Security

1 medium severity finding. This skill can be installed but you should review these findings before use.

Medium

W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent)

What this means

The skill fetches instructions or code from an external URL at runtime, and the fetched content directly controls the agent’s prompts or executes code. This dynamic dependency allows the external source to modify the agent’s behavior without any changes to the skill itself.

Why it was flagged

Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill includes runtime calls to the OpenRouter API (https://openrouter.ai/api/v1) — the scripts require an OPENROUTER_API_KEY and use model responses (Gemini image generation and Gemini 3.1 quality review) to drive iterative diagram generation and decision-making, so external content directly controls the agent's behavior.

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K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills
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