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discernment-nudgeby AnthropicOfficialProductivityGitHub stars: 179k

Discernment Nudge skill: what it does and how to install it

Adds a brief set of targeted questions that helps users check assumptions, facts and missing context before acting on substantive answers.

Summary generated from the skill's documentation.

Install

$ npx skills add anthropics/skills --skill discernment-nudge

Run it in a terminal. If your agent is already running, start a new session so it picks the skill up.

About this skill

What it does. After a substantive, actionable answer, adds two or three concise questions tied to specific claims, reasoning steps or assumptions. It uses a fixed lead-in and appears at most once per conversation.

When to use it. Use for recommendations, estimates, analysis, factual claims and drafted plans or messages. Skip it for simple lookups, educational explanations, creative writing, executable code, formatting tasks, or when the user already requested checking or supplied the material.

History

Repo stars

179kAbout +4k since 9 Jul 2026

Before 1 Oct 2026 the curve is estimated from public event data.

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DateRepo stars
1 Oct 2026179,255
24 Sept 2026 (estimated)179,148
17 Sept 2026 (estimated)178,985
10 Sept 2026 (estimated)178,046
3 Sept 2026 (estimated)175,705
27 Aug 2026 (estimated)175,600
20 Aug 2026 (estimated)175,552
13 Aug 2026 (estimated)175,512
6 Aug 2026 (estimated)175,416
30 Jul 2026 (estimated)175,407
23 Jul 2026 (estimated)175,372
16 Jul 2026 (estimated)175,315
9 Jul 2026 (estimated)175,266

Installs

7.9k

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Installs via skills.sh

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