Tag: reasoning

After giving advice, a draft or a data analysis, adds 2-3 targeted follow-up questions that prompt the user to check key facts, test the reasoning and fill in missing context. Fires at most once per conversation. Official Anthropic skill.

For fuzzy requirements: the agent asks one question at a time with its own guess, clarifying users, motivation, success criteria and constraints, and restates the intent for your confirmation before planning. Needs you answering live, so not for unattended runs. From Addy Osmani's agent-skills.

Provides a sequential_thinking tool that guides the model to break complex problems into revisable, branching steps. Good for planning, analysis and tasks that need careful iteration. Official MCP reference server.

Gives agents the current time and IANA time zone conversion, detecting the system time zone automatically. No API key needed. Official MCP reference server, written in Python.

Official Anthropic plugin that solves competition math such as IMO and Putnam problems, with adversarial checks by an independent verifier that only sees the clean proof. Gives up explicitly rather than bluffing when unsure, and outputs LaTeX/PDF once verified.

Give it a person's name or a vague need and it researches and distills their mental models, decision style and voice into a callable persona skill (e.g. Munger, Feynman, Jobs) to aid analysis and decisions. Works with Claude Code, Codex and other agents.

Perplexity's official MCP with four tools: web search, grounded Q&A, deep research and reasoning, available remotely or run locally. Requires a Perplexity API key.

Anthropic's official research skill built on Fischbach and Walsh's problem-selection framework (Cell): a conversational guide to refining project ideas, assessing risk and success criteria, unblocking stalled research and choosing directions. No setup or account needed.