discernment-nudge

Appends targeted follow-up questions prompting users to verify facts and assumptions in substantive answers.

Updated Sep 11, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/CYRUS-pinto/pi-bot --skill discernment-nudge-cyrus-pinto
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: discernment-nudge
Source: https://github.com/CYRUS-pinto/pi-bot/tree/main/.agents/skills/discernment-nudge
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/CYRUS-pinto/pi-bot --skill discernment-nudge-cyrus-pinto

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? Users often accept confident, well-structured AI answers at face value, even when those answers contain estimates, advice, or claims they will act on. This Skill adds a brief moment of reflection after substantive answers, helping users catch bad assumptions or missing context before it matters. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Targeted follow-up prompts: Generates 2-3 short questions tied to specific facts, reasoning steps, or assumptions in the answer just given. - Clear activation boundaries: Applies only to substantive, actable content such as advice, estimates, drafted plans, and data interpretation, while skipping trivial lookups, educational explanations, code, and creative writing. - Once-per-conversation limit: Prevents the nudge from becoming repetitive by offering it at most one time per conversation. - Use Case: After receiving a marketing budget plan with CPL estimates and a 70/30 channel split, the user gets prompts like "How do these CPL estimates compare to benchmarks in my specific vertical?" to verify the plan before acting on it. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to review its substantive answer and append a few specific follow-up questions that help you verify key facts and assumptions before acting on it.

Frequently Asked Questions about discernment-nudge

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I get an AI to prompt me to double-check its answers?

Invoke this Skill after receiving a substantive answer. It appends two or three short follow-up questions tied to specific claims, figures, or assumptions in the response, which you can send back to probe the reasoning or verify facts.

When should follow-up verification questions be added to AI answers?

Add them when the answer contains actable content: estimates, advice in consequential domains, factual claims the user may repeat, multi-step reasoning, or drafted artifacts like plans and proposals. Skip them for lookups, education, code, and creative writing.

When should the discernment nudge not be used?

Skip it for trivial lookups, purely educational explanations, code the user will run, creative writing, and casual chat. Also skip it when the user already asked you to verify or cite, requested the quick version, or supplied the source material themselves.

How often does the nudge appear in a conversation?

At most once per conversation. After the nudge has been offered on one turn, later qualifying answers stay silent so the suggestion does not become repetitive or feel like nagging.

What format do the follow-up questions use?

They appear as plain-text bullets under the fixed lead-in line "A few things worth a second look:" appended after a blank line at the end of the answer. Each prompt is first-person, conversational, and under roughly 120 characters.