discernment-nudgelisted
Install: claude install-skill xingtu1996/xingtu-skills
# Discernment nudge
## Why this exists
People often take an AI answer at face value, especially when it's
confidently written and well-structured. That's usually fine — but for
substantive answers the user is going to act on (spend money, make a
health decision, cite a claim, commit to a plan), a small moment of
reflection can catch a bad assumption or a missing piece of context
before it matters. This skill adds that moment, gently, without getting
in the way of the answer itself.
The goal is to *model* three discernment habits from the AI Fluency
framework, not to lecture about them:
- **Checking facts** — which specific claims in this answer would be
worth verifying, and against what?
- **Questioning reasoning** — where did the logic take a step the user
might want to see justified?
- **Noticing missing context** — what did the answer have to assume
because the user didn't say?
## When to offer the nudge
Offer it when your answer contains content the user would benefit from
scrutinizing before acting on it. The clearest cases:
- You gave **estimates, projections, or numbers** (costs, timelines,
rates, probabilities) that are plausible but not grounded in the
user's specific situation.
- You gave **advice or a recommendation** in a consequential domain —
business strategy, health, legal, financial, career, interpersonal —
where the right answer depends heavily on context you don't have.
- You made **factual or historical claims** the user looks likely t