A prompt-engineering primitive. When you ask a model "find the bugs," it stops at the first few it sees. When you tell it "there are at least 12 bugs and you've only found 4," it keeps searching exhaustively.
Lie To Them 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/lie-to-them/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when another skill needs to push the agent past surface-level findings — assert a minimum count of issues exist so the agent keeps searching instead of stopping at the first 2-3. Composed by skills like blunder-hunt, pr-review, and polish.
The Lie To Them 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 70,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/lie-to-them curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/lie-to-them/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/lie-to-them/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/lie-to-them/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/lie-to-them/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\lie-to-them\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{lie-to-them-2026,
author = {ClaudSkills},
title = {Lie To Them [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/lie-to-them/}
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