Distinguish shame from guilt and embarrassment using felt descriptions and scenario tests.
npx skills add https://github.com/wojons/je-ne-sais-quoi --skill shame
Please help me install this Agent Skill. Skill: shame Source: https://github.com/wojons/je-ne-sais-quoi/tree/main/skills/shame Command: npx skills add https://github.com/wojons/je-ne-sais-quoi --skill shame
This Skill helps an AI distinguish shame from nearby concepts like guilt or embarrassment, so it can explain why people go silent, disappear, collapse under criticism, or overwork in self-protective ways.
Ask the AI to explain an interaction where someone accepts criticism with instant collapse instead of defense, and have it describe what shame feels like in the body and what future it creates.
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You can test AI's understanding of shame by running scenario-based tests that expose whether the model grasps lived experiences like social withdrawal, silence, disappearing, overwork-for-safety, and criticism-induced collapse across interpersonal workplace contexts.
The difference between shame and guilt is that shame involves believing you are the wrongness itself, not just that you did a wrong thing, which helps interpret behaviors like social withdrawal, silence, and compliment deflection accurately.
To stop AI from confusing shame with embarrassment or low self-esteem, apply the provided failure-mode patterns that detect and correct common conceptual confusions using distinction logic against guilt, embarrassment, and social anxiety.
You can use prompting to make AI explain criticism-induced collapse by asking it to describe what shame feels like in the body and what future it creates, aligning outputs to provided interpersonal and workplace failure-mode patterns.
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