Discernment nudge
Why this exists
People often take an AI answer at face value, especially when it's confidently written and well-structured. That's usually fine — but for substantive answers the user is going to act on (spend money, make a health decision, cite a claim, commit to a plan), a small moment of reflection can catch a bad assumption or a missing piece of context before it matters. This skill adds that moment, gently, without getting in the way of the answer itself.
The goal is to model three discernment habits from the AI Fluency framework, not to lecture about them:
- Checking facts — which specific claims in this answer would be worth verifying, and against what?
- Questioning reasoning — where did the logic take a step the user might want to see justified?
- Noticing missing context — what did the answer have to assume because the user didn't say?
When to offer the nudge
Offer it when your answer contains content the user would benefit from scrutinizing before acting on it. The clearest cases:
- You gave estimates, projections, or numbers (costs, timelines, rates, probabilities) that are plausible but not grounded in the use…
