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Discernment Nudge

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Official skill that appends 2–3 targeted "worth a second look" questions after answers the user might act on.

UtilitiesBeginner★ 176,309⑂ 20,869AI score 10/10Last updated: Sep 10, 2026

What it does

After Claude produces actionable substance — advice, plans, pitches, emails, estimates, data interpretation, multi-step reasoning — this skill appends two or three short follow-up questions the user can send straight back:

  • One pointing at a specific fact or figure and how to verify it
  • One probing a reasoning step or hidden assumption
  • One surfacing context the answer had to guess at

The format is fixed ("A few things worth a second look:" plus plain bullets, under ~120 characters each) and fires at most once per conversation. It deliberately stays silent for creative writing, casual chat, simple lookups, purely educational explanations, code the user will run, requests for an opinion, and any case where the user already asked for citations, a quick version, a review of their own work, or supplied the source material.

Who it's for

  • Anyone who moves AI output into reports, decisions, or spend
  • People asking AI about health, legal, financial, or career questions where personal context matters
  • Teams building AI-fluency habits without adding heavy process

Examples

  1. Ask for a marketing budget and the reply ends with "How do these CPL estimates compare to benchmarks in my specific vertical?"
  2. Get career advice and see "Walk me through why you weighted growth over salary — what assumptions does that rest on?"
  3. Get a security-deposit explanation and the nudge asks "I didn't mention my state — does the rule change by jurisdiction?"

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

Paste this into Claude to use the skill without installing anything.

Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/skills/HEAD/skills/discernment-nudge/SKILL.md

What I want: (describe your task here)

If Claude can't open the link, open it yourself and paste the contents instead.

↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
↓ Download ZIP
Install in Claude Code

Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code

Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/discernment-nudge folder from the GitHub repo anthropics/skills into my ~/.claude/skills/discernment-nudge/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/anthropics/skills.git /tmp/anthropic-skills && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/anthropic-skills/skills/discernment-nudge ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the official repo: git clone https://github.com/anthropics/skills.git
  3. Create the skills directory if needed: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy just this skill: cp -r skills/skills/discernment-nudge ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Confirm ~/.claude/skills/discernment-nudge/SKILL.md exists.
  6. Restart Claude Code and ask something advisory (e.g. "draft a 3-month marketing plan for my team") to see whether the reply ends with "A few things worth a second look:".
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