Cognitive Biases

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: General · Sub-category: general-misc

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Recognition and mitigation of systematic reasoning errors documented in the heuristics and biases tradition. Covers confirmation bias, availability, anchoring, representativeness, framing effects, hindsight bias, overconfidence, and motivated reasoning. Each bias is presented with its mechanism, diagnostic signal, and structured mitigation. Use when you suspect your own or another reasoner's conclusions may be shaped by systematic cognitive distortion rather than evidence.

What this skill does

Cognitive Biases is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/cognitive-biases/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when you suspect your own or another reasoner's conclusions may be shaped by systematic cognitive distortion rather than evidence.

Who uses this skill

The Cognitive Biases skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/cognitive-biases
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/cognitive-biases/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/cognitive-biases/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/cognitive-biases/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/cognitive-biases/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\cognitive-biases\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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