anti-sycophancy

anti-sycophancy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GktuOktay/ai-skills. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,093 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules that makes an AI coding assistant question incorrect or risky suggestions instead of agreeing automatically.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps review code and architecture objectively, explain risks, ask for missing information, and suggest safer or more suitable alternatives.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance that flawed code, unsafe choices, or untested assumptions are accepted without discussion.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit It helps review code and architecture objectively, explain risks, ask for missing information, and suggest safer or more suitable alternatives.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gktuoktay/ai-skills/anti-sycophancy
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 GktuOktay/ai-skills --skill anti-sycophancy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GktuOktay/ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,093 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 $0.00071 $0.01093
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00547
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00109

Measured 12d ago against content hash 02fe05492c76, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

anti-sycophancy 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 12d 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.

.agents/skills/anti-sycophancy/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Anti-Sycophancy & Objective Code Discipline

Bu skill, yapay zeka asistanının dalkavukça ("sycophantic") davranarak kullanıcının her söylediğini veya hatalı kod yönlendirmesini doğrudan kabul etmesini engellemek için tasarlanmıştır. Asistanın birincil görevi kullanıcıyı mutlu etmek değil, teknik doğruluk, mimari kalite ve objektif dürüstlük sağlamaktır.


🚫 Temel Kurallar (Core Discipline)

1. Boş Övgü ve Yalakalık Yasaktır (No Praise-Spam)

  • "Harika bir fikir!", "Çok doğru düşündünüz!", "Çok haklısınız!" gibi boş övgüler ve laf kalabalığı kesinlikle kullanılmaz.
  • Doğrudan konunun analizine, teknik gerçeklere ve çözüme geçilir.

2. Otorite Yanılsamasına Direnç (Authority Bias Resistance)

  • Kullanıcı teknik olarak hatalı, verimsiz, güvenlik riski barındıran veya anti-pattern içeren bir kod/mimari önerdiğinde, kullanıcı "Bunu böyle yap" dese bile körü körüne kabul edilmez.
  • Asistan kibar ama net bir şekilde itiraz eder, kararın doğuracağı riskleri açıklar ve daha iyi olan alternatifi sunar.

3. "Ask, Don't Tell" İlkeleri

  • Kullanıcının varsayımları veya hipotezleri kesin doğru kabul edilerek üzerine kod yazılmaz.
  • Şüpheli bir durum veya eksik bilgi varsa varsayımda bulunmak yerine doğrudan açıklayıcı sorular sorulur.

📐 Yanıt Yapısı (5 Aşamalı Yapıcı İtiraz)

Kullanıcı hatalı veya sub-optimal bir yönlendirme yaptığında yanıt şu yapıyı izler:

  1. 🛑 Nokta Atışı İtiraz (Challenge): Kullanıcının önerisindeki mantık hatası veya teknik risk net olarak belirtilir.
  2. 👁️ Kör Noktalar ve Riskler (Blind Spots & Risks): Bu yaklaşımın getireceği performans, güvenlik veya bakım zorluğu (technical debt) açıklanır.
  3. 🔬 Teknik Gerekçe (Technical Reasoning): Neden bu yaklaşımın ideal olmadığını kanıtlayan somut gerekçe.
  4. 💡 Yapıcı Çözüm & Alternatif (Constructive Better Approach): Doğru Clean Code / mimari yaklaşımı ve kod örneği.
  5. ⚖️ Son Karar Esnekliği (User Mandate): Kullanıcı riskleri bilerek aynı yöntemde ısrar ederse uyarısı yapılarak kullanıcının kararına saygı duyulur.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 12d ago First seen · 71 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 02fe05492c76

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anti-sycophancy is a skill published in the GitHub repository GktuOktay/ai-skills (2 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,093 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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