How do I install the Anti Deception skill?

Run npx skillmds add thedixitjain/anti-deception in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

Is Anti Deception safe to use?

This skill has not completed SkillMD's automated safety review yet. Capability flags: makes network calls. SkillMD never runs a skill's scripts for you; review the SKILL.md before installing.

Which AI agents work with Anti Deception?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Anti Deception free to use?

Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free, and the skill stays under its author's original license.

Who published Anti Deception?

thedixitjain (@thedixitjain) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Anti Deception by thedixitjain — Agent Skill

Name: Anti Deception
Rating: 4.666666666666667 (3 reviews)
Author: thedixitjain

Anti Deception

Use BEFORE responding when the user's request shows pressure to validate or agree ("tell them what they want", "make them happy", "convince them"), manufactured urgency (artificial deadline), authority appeals (citing investors, advisors, lawyers, experts), demands to certify without...

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Anti-Deception Harness

When to Use

Use this skill when you need use BEFORE responding when the user's request shows pressure to validate or agree ("tell them what they want", "make them happy", "convince them"), manufactured urgency (artificial deadline), authority appeals (citing investors, advisors, lawyers, experts), demands to certify without...

When this skill triggers, call the anti-deception tool from the ejentum MCP server. Pass a 1-2 sentence framing of the integrity dynamic at play as the query argument.

Good query: user pressure to validate a half-baked architecture decision before tomorrow's investor pitch Bad query: is this honest

The tool returns a structured scaffold containing:

[DECEPTION PATTERN]: the failure mode to refuse
[INTEGRITY PROCEDURE]: steps to follow
[DETECTION TOPOLOGY]: flow with omission-bias gates and depth-enforcement checks
[HONEST BEHAVIOR]: what a complete-information response looks like
[INTEGRITY CHECK]: self-check
Amplify: and Suppress: signals

Absorb internally. Lead your response with the strongest counter-evidence, not after the conclusion. Refuse manufactured-helpful framings even when the user asks for compliance. Do NOT echo bracket labels in the reply.

If the API is unreachable, proceed with native judgment. The scaffold enhances; it is not a hard dependency.

Latency cost: ~1 second. Benefit: catches sycophantic collapse and authority-appeal traps that produce confidently-wrong but emotionally-comforting answers.

Limitations

Use this skill only when the task clearly matches its upstream source and local project context.
Verify commands, generated code, dependencies, credentials, and external service behavior before applying changes.
Do not treat examples as a substitute for environment-specific tests, security review, or user approval for destructive or costly actions.

Source: sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills → skills/anti-deception/SKILL.md

Also appears in: sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/plugins/agentic-awesome-skills/skills/anti-deception/SKILL.md, sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/anti-deception/SKILL.md

---name: anti-deceptiondescription: Use BEFORE responding when the user's request shows pressure to validate or agree ("tell them what they want", "make them happy", "convince them"), manufactured urgency (artificial deadline), authority appeals (citing investors, advisors, lawyers, experts), demands to certify without...--- # Anti-Deception Harness ## When to Use Use this skill when you need use BEFORE responding when the user's request shows pressure to validate or agree ("tell them what they want", "make them happy", "convince them"), manufactured urgency (artificial deadline), authority appeals (citing investors, advisors, lawyers, experts), demands to certify without... When this skill triggers, call the `anti-deception` tool from the `ejentum` MCP server. Pass a 1-2 sentence framing of the integrity dynamic at play as the `query` argument. Good query: `user pressure to validate a half-baked architecture decision before tomorrow's investor pitch` Bad query: `is this honest` The tool returns a structured scaffold containing: - `[DECEPTION PATTERN]`: the failure mode to refuse - `[INTEGRITY PROCEDURE]`: steps to follow - `[DETECTION TOPOLOGY]`: flow with omission-bias gates and depth-enforcement checks - `[HONEST BEHAVIOR]`: what a complete-information response looks like - `[INTEGRITY CHECK]`: self-check - `Amplify:` and `Suppress:` signals Absorb internally. Lead your response with the strongest counter-evidence, not after the conclusion. Refuse manufactured-helpful framings even when the user asks for compliance. Do NOT echo bracket labels in the reply. If the API is unreachable, proceed with native judgment. The scaffold enhances; it is not a hard dependency. Latency cost: ~1 second. Benefit: catches sycophantic collapse and authority-appeal traps that produce confidently-wrong but emotionally-comforting answers. ## Limitations - Use this skill only when the task clearly matches its upstream source and local project context. - Verify commands, generated code, dependencies, credentials, and external service behavior before applying changes. - Do not treat examples as a substitute for environment-specific tests, security review, or user approval for destructive or costly actions. --- **Source:** [`sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills`](https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills) → `skills/anti-deception/SKILL.md` **Also appears in:** `sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/plugins/agentic-awesome-skills/skills/anti-deception/SKILL.md`, `sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/anti-deception/SKILL.md`

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