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-nudgeRun 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.
Stars are counted for the whole repository, which holds 19 skills.
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| Date | Repo stars |
|---|---|
| 1 Oct 2026 | 179,255 |
| 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
Tracking since . A chart appears once there are 7 days of data.
Installs via skills.sh
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