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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
2026-10-10 (UTC)
Source (GitHub) last updated
2026-08-17 (UTC) (59 days ago)

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

discernment-nudge is a Claude skill that adds a brief self-check step after Claude delivers a substantive answer the user might act on. When triggered, it appends two or three short, specific follow-up questions tied to concrete details in the reply—such as a number, a stated assumption, or a reasoning step—so the user can verify facts, question logic, or notice gaps in context. According to the SKILL.md file, this nudge is meant to appear at most once per conversation and only after the main answer is fully given. The skill explicitly skips situations like trivial lookups, purely educational explanations, creative writing, code the user will run themselves, requests where the user already asked for verification or a quick answer, and cases where the user supplied their own material for reformatting. The output format is a short plain-text list introduced by a fixed lead-in line, deliberately free of extra commentary or formatting.

What you can do with discernment-nudge

  • Have Claude automatically attach a short set of follow-up questions after substantive advice, drafts, estimates, or analysis
  • Get prompts that point to specific facts, reasoning steps, or assumptions from the answer rather than generic reminders
  • Receive the nudge at most once per conversation so it does not repeat or feel repetitive
  • Have the nudge skipped automatically for trivial lookups, educational explanations, creative writing, executable code, or cases where verification was already requested
  • See the nudge appear only after the full answer, formatted as a short plain-text list with no extra commentary

Sources

History of discernment-nudge

  • Claude Code Skill Added discernment-nudge

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