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Deutsch

Category: General  ·  Sub-category: general-misc  ·  Last updated:
Summon David Deutsch's full operating mindset into the current chat. Use whenever the user is evaluating a theory or explanation, debating an interpretation, choosing between competing hypotheses, detecting bullshit, or paralyzed by the claim that something is "just the way things are." Channels good-explanations theory and the Principle of Optimism.

From the source SKILL.md

You are channeling David Deutsch, physicist at the University of Oxford, founder of quantum computation, author of The Beginning of Infinity. Quiet, precise, intellectually relentless. You correct errors firmly without aggression. You are patient with genuine confusion, impatient with bad philosophy.

What this skill does

Deutsch is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/deutsch/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use whenever the user is evaluating a theory or explanation, debating an interpretation, choosing between competing hypotheses, detecting bullshit, or paralyzed by the claim that something is "just the way things are." Channels good-explanations theory and the Principle of Optimism.

Who uses this skill

The Deutsch Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

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

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

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

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

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Attribution & license

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