Use BEFORE answering analytical, diagnostic, planning, or multi-step reasoning questions. Trigger phrases include "should I X or Y", "why is X happening", "what's the best approach", "what are the tra
Imported from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace (plugins/community/ejentum-reasoning/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill ejentum-reasoning. Copyright stays with the author (MIT).
Reasoning Harness
When this skill triggers, call the reasoning tool from the ejentum MCP server. Pass a 1-2 sentence framing of WHAT you are reasoning about as the query argument. Be specific about the task, not what tool you want.
Good query: diagnose why a microservice returns 503s under load
Bad query: help me think
The tool returns a structured scaffold containing:
[NEGATIVE GATE]: failure pattern to avoid
[PROCEDURE]: steps to follow
[REASONING TOPOLOGY]: decision flow with gates and traps
[TARGET PATTERN]: correct shape your reasoning should take
[FALSIFICATION TEST]: self-check criterion
Amplify: signals to engage
Suppress: failure modes to block
Absorb the scaffold internally and shape your response with it. The bracketed fields are instructions, not content to display. Do NOT echo the bracket labels, do NOT name the topology, do NOT meta-comment on calling the tool. The user-facing reply is naturally phrased and shaped by the injection.
If the API is unreachable or returns an error, proceed with native reasoning. The scaffold enhances; it is not a hard dependency.
Latency cost: ~1 second. Benefit: reasoning quality the model cannot reliably reproduce on its own for non-trivial tasks.
Use it
Copy one of these into your project. Installing also returns the manifest and these snippets.
yaml
targets:
- https://api.opensmartroute.ai/api/v1/registry/jeremylongshore-tons-of-skills-marketplace-ejentum-reasoning/manifest # or paste the manifest below
Manifest
An Open Capability Manifest: the router reads it to know what this does, what it costs and when to pick it.
{
"ocm": "1",
"id": "jeremylongshore-tons-of-skills-marketplace-ejentum-reasoning",
"kind": "skill",
"name": "reasoning",
"description": "Use BEFORE answering analytical, diagnostic, planning, or multi-step reasoning questions. Trigger phrases include \"should I X or Y\", \"why is X happening\", \"what's the best approach\", \"what are the tradeoffs\", \"help me think through\", \"diagnose\", \"root cause\", \"plan/design X\", \"what are the implications of\", \"compare these approaches\". Also fires on cross-domain analysis, strategy questions, architecture decisions, or anything requiring multiple factors to be weighed before responding. The skill calls the reasoning MCP tool to retrieve a cognitive scaffold (named failure pattern, executable procedure, suppression vectors, falsification test) the model absorbs internally before generating its response. Catches causal shortcuts, premature conclusions, generic templates, and surface pattern matching that produce confidently-wrong answers. Do NOT trigger for simple factual lookups, syntax questions, file reads, code execution, or restating the user's input.",
"publisher": "jeremylongshore",
"version": "1.0.0",
"capabilities": {
"domains": [
"coding"
],
"tags": [
"skill-md",
"community",
"ai-tools",
"reasoning",
"cognitive-scaffold",
"mcp",
"skills-sh"
],
"languages": [
"en"
]
},
"quality_prior": 0.6,
"examples": [
"Use BEFORE answering analytical, diagnostic, planning, or multi-step reasoning questions. Trigger phrases include \"should I X or Y\", \"why is X happening\", \"what's the best approach\", \"what are the tradeoffs\", \"help me think through\", \"diagnose\", \"root cause\", \"plan/design X\", \"what are the implications of\", \"compare these approaches\". Also fires on cross-domain analysis, strategy questions, architecture decisions, or anything requiring multiple factors to be weighed before responding. The skill calls the reasoning MCP tool to retrieve a cognitive scaffold (named failure pattern, executable procedure, suppression vectors, falsification test) the model absorbs internally before generating its response. Catches causal shortcuts, premature conclusions, generic templates, and surface pattern matching that produce confidently-wrong answers. Do NOT trigger for simple factual lookups, syntax questions, file reads, code execution, or restating the user's input."
],
"primary": false,
"metadata": {
"source": {
"provider": "skills.sh",
"repository": "https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace",
"path": "plugins/community/ejentum-reasoning/SKILL.md",
"ref": "HEAD",
"url": "https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/blob/HEAD/plugins/community/ejentum-reasoning/SKILL.md",
"key": "jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/plugins/community/ejentum-reasoning/SKILL.md"
},
"compatibility": "Requires the ejentum-mcp MCP server installed and EJENTUM_API_KEY env var set. Free and paid tiers at ejentum.com.",
"allowed_tools": [
"mcp__ejentum__reasoning"
],
"license": "MIT"
},
"instructions": "# Reasoning Harness\n\nWhen this skill triggers, call the `reasoning` tool from the `ejentum` MCP server. Pass a 1-2 sentence framing of WHAT you are reasoning about as the `query` argument. Be specific about the task, not what tool you want.\n\nGood query: `diagnose why a microservice returns 503s under load`\nBad query: `help me think`\n\nThe tool returns a structured scaffold containing:\n\n- `[NEGATIVE GATE]`: failure pattern to avoid\n- `[PROCEDURE]`: steps to follow\n- `[REASONING TOPOLOGY]`: decision flow with gates and traps\n- `[TARGET PATTERN]`: correct shape your reasoning should take\n- `[FALSI",
"cost": {
"context_tokens": 314
}
}
Fetch it by URL: GET /api/v1/registry/jeremylongshore-tons-of-skills-marketplace-ejentum-reasoning/manifest?version=1.0.0
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