dual-system-thinking

dual-system-thinking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from deciqAI/knowledge-skills. It costs 103 tokens per session (1,832 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision-making framework that separates quick, automatic judgment from slower, deliberate analysis. It explains when instinct is useful and when a decision needs careful checking.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review high-stakes choices, challenge fast team agreement, check confident AI answers, and decide when to slow down and verify assumptions.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of trusting a confident first impression when the decision is important, unfamiliar, or affected by pressure and tiredness.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to review high-stakes choices, challenge fast team agreement, check confident AI answers, and decide when to slow down and verify assumptions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deciqai/knowledge-skills/dual-system-thinking
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add deciqAI/knowledge-skills --skill dual-system-thinking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,832 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00103 $0.01832
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00916
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00366
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00183

Measured 9d ago against content hash 44e408bc4c5e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dual-system-thinking 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 9d ago.

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.

dual-system-thinking/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dual-System Thinking (System 1 / System 2)

Overview

Two parallel modes: System 1 — fast, automatic, effortless (pattern recognition, gut feel). System 2 — slow, deliberate, effortful (analysis, computation, critical evaluation). System 1 runs ~95% of decisions by default; System 2 engages only when recruited. Most cognitive biases are System 1 shortcuts misapplied where System 2 should have intervened.

Composes with metacognition, every cognitive-bias skill (anchoring, confirmation-bias, availability-heuristic, etc.), deep-work, and wu-wei.

When to Use

  • Decision feels obvious and is high-stakes; unfamiliar domain + fast intuition; time pressure on consequential matter; team converging without stress-test; depleted (tired/hungry/pressured)
  • Designing a process or interface that depends on user attention
  • Acting on a fast, fluent, confident AI/LLM answer (AI adoption, AI hype, "the AI said so") on a high-stakes call — when to force slow verification of a confident machine response

Not when: routine low-stakes decisions; calibrated expert System 1 in this exact domain; emergency requiring speed.

Coaching Novices (Adaptive Front Door)

  • Engine mode: user has a concrete decision → run The Process directly.
  • Coach mode: user is unfamiliar → guide step by step.

In Coach mode, respond one step at a time. Each [WAIT] is a hard stop — output only that step's question, then stop.

  1. One-line: when a high-stakes decision feels obvious, that obviousness is a warning — System 1 is firing and may need System 2 to check it.
  2. Check fit: routine low-stakes decisions are fine for System 1. This framework is for consequential, novel, or statistically-loaded decisions.
  3. Elicit the specific decision: what's being decided? Does it feel obvious? Are you tired / pressured / in your area of trained expertise?

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

  1. Work through: what's the System 1 answer? what's the System 2 check? what bias might be active? what procedure forces System 2 engagement?

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

  1. Close: name the system used and the procedure applied.

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 120 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 44e408bc4c5e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dual-system-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository deciqAI/knowledge-skills (10 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 1,832 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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