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discernment-nudge Claude Code Skill

Author
Anthropic
Topics
Claude Code Customization & Workflow
License
See LICENSE.txt
First cataloged
2026-08-17 (UTC)
Explanation last updated
2026-09-03 (UTC)
Source (GitHub) last updated
2026-08-17 (UTC) (19 days ago)

The explanation below is AI-generated. Please verify it against the sources.

This is a Claude skill that, after the assistant gives a substantive answer such as advice, a drafted document, an estimate, an analysis, a factual claim, or a multi-step argument, appends two or three short follow-up questions tied to specifics in that answer before the reply is finalized. The questions are meant to help the user verify facts, examine the reasoning or assumptions behind the answer, and notice any context the answer had to assume. The skill file specifies that this should happen at most once per conversation and lists many situations where it should be skipped, such as trivial lookups, purely educational explanations, creative writing, code the user will run, cases where the user supplied the source material, or cases where the user already asked for verification or a quick answer. It also gives an exact output format: a fixed lead-in line followed by plain-text bullet questions, with nothing added afterward.

What you can do with discernment-nudge

  • Automatically appends 2-3 targeted follow-up questions after a substantive answer, tied to specific facts, reasoning steps, or assumptions in that answer
  • Applies to advice, drafted artifacts (plans, pitches, emails), estimates, data interpretation, factual claims, and multi-step reasoning
  • Limits itself to at most one nudge per conversation
  • Skips the nudge for trivial lookups, purely educational explanations, creative writing, code meant to be executed, brainstorming, casual conversation, and opinion requests
  • Skips the nudge when the user already asked for verification, citations, a quick answer, or a review of their own material
  • Uses a fixed output format: a set lead-in line followed by plain-text bullets, with no extra commentary afterward

Sources

History of discernment-nudge

  • Claude Code Skill Added discernment-nudge

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