build-your-ai-common-sense-habit

build-your-ai-common-sense-habit is a skill for Claude Code from alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills. It costs 28 tokens per session (1,102 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to using generative AI—tools that produce text or code from prompts—with habits for providing context, limiting output, and checking results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to structure prompts, set response formats, verify links and calculations, and move from short summaries to deeper detail.
Why use it?
It addresses common mistakes caused by treating AI as an infallible search engine or person, including unsupported answers and poorly scoped work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the major-ai-skills plugin — 147 skills, 8 plugins shipped together

Good fit Use it to structure prompts, set response formats, verify links and calculations, and move from short summaries to deeper detail.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/build-your-ai-common-sense-habit
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills --skill build-your-ai-common-sense-habit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install major-ai-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 147 skills, 8 plugins.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,102 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00028 $0.01102
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00551
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00110

Measured yesterday against content hash 66004498ffd9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-your-ai-common-sense-habit scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/build-your-ai-common-sense-habit/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build Your AI Common Sense Habit (The Master Operating System) (AI Skill)

Overview

Generative AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) are not search engines, and they are not infallible humans - they are high-powered, probabilistic text engines. Treating them like magical minds leads to frustration, while treating them with structured common sense turns them into the ultimate personal multiplier.

This guide codifies the 5 Core Habits of High-Leverage AI Operators into a daily mental checklist.


The 5 Pillars of the AI Common Sense Operating System

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 The AI Common Sense Engine                  │
│                                                             │
│  1. ANCHOR FIRST    ──► Provide role, context & boundaries  │
│           │                                                 │
│  2. BOUND OUTPUT    ──► Set word limits, schemas, or tables │
│           │                                                 │
│  3. VERIFY EXTERNALLY ─► Click URLs, compute math with code │
│           │                                                 │
│  4. PROGRESSIVE FLOW──► Ask BLUF/summary before deep dives  │
│           │                                                 │
│  5. SURGICAL EDITS  ──► Edit only broken lines, keep voice  │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

The 5 Core Daily Habits

Habit 1: Anchor Before Asking (Context Over Guessing)

  • The Rule: Never give a naked 1-line command ("Write an email to Dave").
  • The Habit: Always state the Role, Audience, Goal, and Banned Words upfront. 10 seconds of prompt clarity saves 5 minutes of rewriting.

Habit 2: Enforce Bounded Outputs (Tables & Word Ceilings)

  • The Rule: Unconstrained AI produces rambling narrative essays.
  • The Habit: Explicitly demand: "Respond as a Markdown table with 4 columns" or "Keep answer strictly under 100 words".

Habit 3: Externalize Math and URLs (Zero-Trust Grounding)

  • The Rule: LLMs hallucinate numbers, prices, and links because they predict tokens rather than executing calculations or querying live DNS.
  • The Habit: Always demand Python scripts for arithmetic and independently click links before sending to clients or stakeholders.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday Changed · -9 tokens per session 66004498ffd9
  2. 7d ago First seen · 90 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 5a62e8ee0822

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build-your-ai-common-sense-habit is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,102 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.

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