# Thought Based Reasoning

> Use when tackling complex reasoning tasks requiring step-by-step logic, multi-step arithmetic, commonsense reasoning, symbolic manipulation, or problems where simple prompting fails - provides comprehensive guide to Chain-of-Thought and related prompting techniques (Zero-shot CoT, Self-Consistency, Tree of Thoughts, Least-to-Most, ReAct, PAL, Reflexion) with templates, decision matrices, and research-backed patterns

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-neolabhq-thought-based-reasoning
- tashan id: skill:NeoLabHQ/thought-based-reasoning
- Source: https://github.com/NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit
- Type: skill
- Category: ai
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 97.0
- Freshness: 93.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- License: GPL-3.0
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r thought-based-reasoning ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-09-12 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.