cognitive-biases

cognitive-biases is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Tibsfox/gsd-skill-creator. It costs 85 tokens per session (3,506 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to recognising recurring mental shortcuts that can distort judgement, such as confirmation bias, anchoring, overconfidence, and hindsight bias.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine decisions, identify warning signs of biased reasoning, and apply techniques to reduce the effect of these biases.
Why use it?
It helps identify when people favour supporting information, rely too heavily on an initial number, or become too certain without enough evidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to examine decisions, identify warning signs of biased reasoning, and apply techniques to reduce the effect of these biases.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tibsfox/gsd-skill-creator/cognitive-biases
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 Tibsfox/gsd-skill-creator --skill cognitive-biases
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Tibsfox/gsd-skill-creator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,506 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 unknown 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 $0.00085 $0.03506
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.01402
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00701
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00351

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b1fdec24f833, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cognitive-biases 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 1mo 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.

examples/skills/critical-thinking/cognitive-biases/SKILL.md · 213 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 1mo ago First seen · 213 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A b1fdec24f833

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cognitive-biases is a skill published in the GitHub repository Tibsfox/gsd-skill-creator (71 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 3,506 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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