discernment-nudge agent skill by anthropics
Appends two or three short follow-up questions after substantive answers, helping users check key facts, probe reasoning and assumptions, and notice missing context.
At a glance
| Publisher | Anthropic Official |
|---|---|
| Repository | anthropics/skills (17 listed skills) |
| Category | Productivity and Knowledge Work |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Last commit | October 9, 2026 (repository) |
| SKILL.md | 188 lines, 1,578 words |
| Bundled files | 2 files |
| Quality score | 80/100 · B Passes all seven graded checks |
| Security scan | Not scanned |
| README badge | Get the badges for this listing |
Before you install
Read from the skill's files at the directory's October 19, 2026 snapshot: what ships with it, what its code reads, and the terms it is published under.
- Bundled scripts: none.
- License: Apache-2.0, an open-source or open-content license.
Install discernment-nudge
The skills CLI works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents; the other routes copy the folder by hand.
npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/discernment-nudgetmp="$(mktemp -d)"
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/skills.git "$tmp/repo"
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -R "$tmp/repo/"skills/discernment-nudge .claude/skills/
rm -rf "$tmp"python3 ~/.codex/skills/.system/skill-installer/scripts/install-skill-from-github.py \
--repo anthropics/skills \
--path skills/discernment-nudgeanthropics/skills is third-party code. Read SKILL.md and any bundled scripts before you install it.
How the author describes it
After you give a substantive answer or draft that the user may act on — advice or recommendations, drafted artifacts such as goals, plans, pitches, proposals, or emails, estimates or projections, analysis or interpretation of data, factual claims they may rely on, or a multi-step argument — invoke this skill BEFORE finalizing your reply and then, if it applies, append 2-3 short follow-up questions, each tied to something specific in what you just produced, that help the user check key facts, probe the reasoning or assumptions, and notice missing context. Do this at most once per conversation. Skip it when the user asked a trivial how-to or simple lookup, wants a purely educational explanation, asked you only to format, convert, or assemble a file from content they provided, is writing code they will run, is doing creative writing or casual chat, or already asked you to double-check, cite, or review — the skill file explains these boundaries and the exact output format.
From the description field of SKILL.md. Agents read this line to decide when to load the skill.
Sections in SKILL.md
- Why this exists
- When to offer the nudge
- When not to
- Writing the prompts
- Output format
Files in the skill folder
LICENSE.txtSKILL.md
Suede Skill Check: 80/100 · B
Report snapshot · · graded-v2
The rubric totals 100 points; published scores are capped at 99. Security scan: not scanned.
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What to review next
- Description length: 1 of 5 points. 5 for 150–600 characters; 3 for 100–900; 1 for 50–1,024.
- Boundary clause: 0 of 4 points. 4 when the description says when not to use the skill (“Not for …”, “Do not use …”, “Use … instead”).
- Example request: 0 of 3 points. 3 when the description quotes an example request (3–60 characters in quotation marks).
Add declarations and bundled files when they describe the skill’s actual needs. Update the source, then request a fresh review with the changed commit or PR.
discernment-nudge passes the required frontmatter check and all seven graded checks, which cover the SKILL.md format, a declared license and a commit in the last year. Those checks earn 56 of the score’s points; the rest come from description quality, instruction depth, bundled files, maintenance and curated-list citations. How the score works.
See the checks and points
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| Frontmatter parses and declares a name and a description | Pass |
| Name uses lowercase letters, digits and hyphens, 64 characters or fewer | Pass |
| Name matches the skill's folder name | Pass |
| Description is between 50 and 1,024 characters | Pass |
| Description says when an agent should use the skill | Pass |
| SKILL.md body is 500 lines or fewer | Pass |
| A license is declared in the frontmatter or the repository | Pass |
| Repository has a commit in the last 12 months | Pass |
| Score component | Points |
|---|---|
| Structural checks | 56 of 56 |
| Description length | 1 of 5 |
| Boundary clause | 0 of 4 |
| Example request | 0 of 3 |
| Instruction depth | 7 of 7 |
| Reference files | 0 of 3 |
| Bundled scripts | 0 of 2 |
| Recent maintenance | 9 of 9 |
| Curated-list citations | 7 of 7 |
| Tool permissions declared | 0 of 2 |
| Compatibility declared | 0 of 2 |
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Where this skill is cited
anthropics/skills appears in 7 curated lists: BehiSecc/awesome-claude-skills, ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills, heilcheng/awesome-agent-skills, hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code, karanb192/awesome-claude-skills, skillmatic-ai/awesome-agent-skills, travisvn/awesome-claude-skills.