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Chain-of-thought and step-by-step reasoning prompts for complex problem solving

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$ npx -y skills add a5c-ai/babysitter --skill chain-of-thought-prompts --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/chain-of-thought-prompts

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Chain-of-thought and step-by-step reasoning prompts for complex problem solving

SKILL.md

chain-of-thought-prompts.SKILL.md
name: chain-of-thought-prompts
description: Chain-of-thought and step-by-step reasoning prompts for complex problem solving
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - Write
  - Edit
  - Bash
  - Glob
  - Grep
graph:
  domains: [domain:software-engineering]
  specializations: [specialization:ai-agents-conversational]
  skillAreas: [skill-area:chain-of-thought-multistep-orchestration, skill-area:prompt-engineering]
  roles: [role:ml-engineer, role:backend-engineer]
  workflows: [workflow:ml-model-lifecycle, workflow:feature-development]

Chain-of-Thought Prompts Skill

Capabilities

  • Design chain-of-thought prompting patterns
  • Implement step-by-step reasoning templates
  • Create self-consistency prompting
  • Design tree-of-thought patterns
  • Implement reasoning verification
  • Create structured reasoning outputs

Target Processes

  • prompt-engineering-workflow
  • self-reflection-agent

Implementation Details

CoT Patterns

1. **Zero-Shot CoT**: "Let's think step by step" 2. **Few-Shot CoT**: Examples with reasoning 3. **Self-Consistency**: Multiple reasoning paths 4. **Tree-of-Thought**: Branching reasoning 5. **ReAct**: Reasoning + Action interleaved

Configuration Options

  • Reasoning trigger phrases
  • Step format structure
  • Verification prompts
  • Reasoning chain length
  • Consistency voting threshold

Best Practices

  • Clear reasoning step markers
  • Explicit final answer extraction
  • Verify reasoning validity
  • Handle reasoning errors
  • Monitor reasoning quality

Dependencies

  • langchain-core
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