Cognitive Fallacies Guard

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: General · Sub-category: design-creative

type:audittype:debug

Detects and prevents visual misleads, cognitive biases, and data integrity violations in visualizations, dashboards, reports, and presentations. Audits charts for honesty, diagnoses misinterpretation causes, and provides specific fixes. Invoke when user mentions chartjunk, misleading chart, truncated axis, data integrity, visual deception, 3D chart problems, cherry-picking data, or needs to audit visualizations for accuracy. For general design evaluation, use `design-evaluation-audit`. For cognitive foundations, use `cognitive-design`.

What this skill does

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

Who uses this skill

The Cognitive Fallacies Guard 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-fallacies-guard
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/cognitive-fallacies-guard/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/cognitive-fallacies-guard/SKILL.md

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

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/cognitive-fallacies-guard/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\cognitive-fallacies-guard\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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