discernment-nudge Claude Code Skill
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This is a Claude skill that prompts the assistant to add a short set of follow-up questions after it gives a substantive answer the user might act on, such as advice, a draft, an estimate, or a multi-step analysis. Before finalizing a reply, Claude checks whether the content qualifies, and if so appends two or three concise questions tied to specific facts, assumptions, or gaps in what it just produced. The skill is meant to fire at most once per conversation, and it explicitly skips cases like simple lookups, purely educational explanations, code meant to be run, creative or casual writing, and situations where the user already asked for verification or supplied their own source material. It does not connect to any outside service; it only governs how Claude phrases the end of its own response.
What you can do with discernment-nudge
- Get a short, specific prompt to double-check numbers, estimates, or projections given in an answer
- See a question that surfaces an assumption or logical step behind a recommendation or plan
- Receive this nudge at most once per conversation, phrased as questions you could ask back
- Avoid the nudge entirely for trivial lookups, educational explanations, code to run, creative writing, or when you already asked for a review or citations
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History of discernment-nudge
- Claude Code Skill Added discernment-nudge