discernment-nudge
discernment-nudge is an agent skill published by anthropic. It lives in the anthropics/skills repository, which has 183,845 GitHub stars; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
Generates follow-up questions to help users verify facts, probe reasoning, and notice missing context after providing advice, recommendations, or drafted artifacts. Requires no specific credentials.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads anthropics/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add anthropics/skills
Maintenance
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.
Common questions about discernment-nudge
- What does discernment-nudge do?
- Generates follow-up questions to help users verify facts, probe reasoning, and notice missing context after providing advice, recommendations, or drafted artifacts. Requires no specific credentials.
- How do I install discernment-nudge?
- Run npx skills add anthropics/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes discernment-nudge?
- anthropic.
- Is discernment-nudge maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 183,845 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-09. We did not find a declared licence, so check the repository before you rely on it.