critique-argument

# critique-argument Reviews argumentative prose against the Toulmin model of argument, asking whether a reader can reconstruct why the conclusion follows: is there a single stated claim, is it attached to checkable grounds, is the principle licensing the move from grounds to claim explicit, is that principle itself supported, does the claim's asserted strength match its evidence, and does the argument name the conditions that would defeat it. The full criterion registry, with each criterion's operationalization, operational test, severity anchors, and lane, is `references/TOULMIN.md`. ## Artifact claim This skill critiques **argumentative prose**: essays, proposals, position papers, recommendation memos, strategy documents, op-eds, and any document whose purpose is to get a reader to accept a conclusion. Markdown or plain text. It evaluates the **structure of the argument**, not the truth of its content. Whether the grounds an artifact cites are factually correct, whether a cited study replicates, whether the numbers add up: none of that is a `TOULMIN-*` question, and a finding that turns on it is out of scope. The claim this skill makes is that a reader could or could not reconstruct the argument from what the artifact supplies, and that claim is answerable from the artifact alone. Three criteria (`TOULMIN-BACKING`, `TOULMIN-REBUTTAL`, `TOULMIN-WARRANT`) turn on what a reader would grant without being told, which is the one place this skill could smuggle in knowledge th...