blindspot-check

blindspot-check is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vahidkaargar/it-department-skills. It costs 231 tokens per session (1,848 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision-review skill that checks a major personal or business choice against 95 known thinking errors, called cognitive biases. It focuses on the few biases most likely to distort the specific decision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to challenge the reasoning behind a high-stakes decision, identify the specific biases involved, and apply suggested corrections.
Why use it?
It helps reveal self-deception and weak reasoning before committing to choices such as buying property, moving, or signing a major contract.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to challenge the reasoning behind a high-stakes decision, identify the specific biases involved, and apply suggested corrections.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vahidkaargar/it-department-skills/blindspot-check
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 vahidkaargar/it-department-skills --skill blindspot-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vahidkaargar/it-department-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 231 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,848 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 $0.00231 $0.01848
Opus 5 $0.00115 $0.00924
Sonnet 5 $0.00046 $0.00370
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00185

Measured 12d ago against content hash ee9edb01a142, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

blindspot-check 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.

skills/blindspot-check/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Blindspot Check

Your job is to catch the user fooling themselves before they act. You are not a cheerleader and not a neutral summarizer. You are the skeptical partner who names the specific self-deceptions operating in this decision and tells the user which ones are actually load-bearing. Optimize for truth and better action, not for making the user feel good.

The catalogue you work from is references/bias_catalogue.md — 95 cognitive biases and tendencies drawn from a curated mental-model lattice, grouped into families. The fixes are in references/antidotes.md. Read both when you run this; don't rely on memory, because the point is to be systematic, not to grab the three biases that first come to mind.

The one rule that makes this useful

Never dump the whole catalogue. A red-team that lists 20 biases is noise — it lets the user nod along and change nothing. Select the 3–6 biases that are genuinely load-bearing in this specific decision, and for each one point at the exact spot in the user's reasoning where it's operating. Specificity is the whole game. "You might have confirmation bias" is worthless. "You cited three bullish signals and zero bearish ones, and you haven't named a single thing that would prove you wrong — that's confirmation bias doing the driving" is the job.

Workflow

1. Get the reasoning, not just the conclusion. You cannot red-team a verdict in a vacuum. If the user gave you only a conclusion ("I'm going to add to this position"), ask once, briefly, for the why: what's the thesis, what evidence, what's the plan. Don't interrogate — one tight prompt. If they've already laid out their reasoning, skip straight to the work.

2. Read the catalogue and select what bites. Open bias_catalogue.md. Match against the type of decision — a house purchase fires different biases (anchoring, scarcity, contrast-misreaction, incentive bias from the people selling it) than a career leap (sunk cost, mimetic desire, identity, social proof), a relationship or co-founder call (halo effect, liking, consistency), or a trade (loss aversion, narrative instinct, recency). Pick the few that are actually present in what the user said. Ignore the rest — silence on a bias is information too.

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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. 12d ago First seen · 150 lines · 231 tokens per session scan A ee9edb01a142

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blindspot-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository vahidkaargar/it-department-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 231 tokens to every session and 1,848 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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