Let AI be your teacher
When you want to really understand something, it first asks why you're learning, then walks you through practice lesson by lesson.
Good for: People who want to learn something new properly
After AI gives advice or an estimate, it adds a few questions worth checking at the end.
Good for: People who make decisions based on AI's advice
Read this first: Kicks in on its own, at most once per conversation, and always starts with the same short lead-in line.
Just say the “You say to AI” line, with your own details swapped in.
You say to AI
Roughly how much does it cost to have a cat for the first year?
What AI does
What you get
An estimate, with a few follow-up questions at the end to help you check the numbers and assumptions.
You say to AI
Make me a three-month training plan to run a half marathon.
What AI does
What you get
A training plan, plus a few questions to make you think about what might be missing.
Want the original instructions? SKILL.md on anthropics/skills
Which AI tool do you use?
1. Open the Terminal app on your computer, paste the line below and press Enter
npx skills add anthropics/ skills @discernment-nudge -gWith no tool name, the command looks for the AI tools on your computer and asks where to install. If it says npx is missing or too old, install the latest Node.js (22 or newer) first.
Don't feel like opening a terminal?
Tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Trae can run commands themselves. Send them this:
npx skills add anthropics/ skills @discernment-nudge -g2. Reopen your AI tool
New Skills only get picked up after a restart.
3. Just say what you want
Say it the way the examples do. To call it by name, say “Use discernment-nudge to help me…”.
When you want to really understand something, it first asks why you're learning, then walks you through practice lesson by lesson.
Good for: People who want to learn something new properly
Turns an idea or someone's life story into a comic, designing the characters first and then each page.
Good for: People who want to explain something with a comic