The [think tool post](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-think-tool) shows: a no-op think capability that lets Claude pause mid-trajectory to reason about tool output produces measurable gains on policy-heavy sequential work (54% relative gain on τ-Bench airline with think + optimized prompt).
Think Tool Wiring is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the science-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/think-tool-wiring/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when adding a new policy-heavy specialist agent, when reviewing why an existing agent is making sloppy mid-flight decisions, or when the model is acting on tool output without verifying it against rules. Encodes the "think" tool pattern from Anthropic's research — measured 54% gain on τ-Bench airline.
The Think Tool Wiring Claude Code skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 118,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/think-tool-wiring curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/think-tool-wiring/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/think-tool-wiring/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/think-tool-wiring/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/think-tool-wiring/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\think-tool-wiring\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/think-tool-wiring/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Think Tool Wiring is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Science & Research category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{think-tool-wiring-2026,
author = {cvsubs74},
title = {Think Tool Wiring [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/think-tool-wiring/}
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