Drop into a skill folder
Personal: ~/.claude/skills/start-with-a-hypothesis/SKILL.md
Project: .claude/skills/start-with-a-hypothesis/SKILL.md
Brali Agent Skill · practical · usable
When Faced with a Problem, Start by Making an Educated Guess About the Cause
When faced with a problem, start by making an educated guess about the cause. Write down your hypothesis and what you expect to happen if it’s true.
Portable instruction
What the agent should do
When a work problem is unclear, write one plausible explanation, state what you would expect to observe if it were true, run the smallest safe check that could change your mind, and update the hypothesis from the result.
Check-in
What did I expect to observe, what actually happened, and what changed in my explanation after the test?
Install
One portable file, host-specific location.
Inspect SKILL.md first. The evidence state and skill mode are part of the contract.
Install for normal use.
Install directly from this URL
hermes skills install https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/start-with-a-hypothesis/SKILL.mdPlace in a discovered skill root
Workspace: <workspace>/skills/start-with-a-hypothesis/SKILL.md
Global: ~/.openclaw/skills/start-with-a-hypothesis/SKILL.md
Brali verification
Coverage and trust state are checked together.
Canonical ID: brali:start-with-a-hypothesis
Evidence state: practical
Skill mode: usable
Recommendation eligible: yes
SHA-256: 37f25dd19d959737a8f0a7868906b444fe2d46c64a4d468ea6e935a295930745
Brali CI verified. This means identity, state, mode, provenance and file integrity matched the generated corpus. It is not third-party vendor endorsement.
Why every hack gets a skill
Brali keeps a one-to-one machine surface: one hack record, one stable skill identity. Trust state determines what the skill is allowed to do.
License
Original Brali knowledge is available for non-commercial reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Keep attribution, canonical record link, evidence state and skill mode.