Free cognitive-bias Agent Skill

Anthropocentric Thinking

Use Anthropocentric Thinking as a focused cognitive-bias lens. Explain the pattern, check whether it plausibly fits the situation, surface an alternative non-bias explanation, and return a practical counter-check without diagnosing people or claiming causation.

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Open SKILL.md Read canonical bias

What the agent should do

Use one bias carefully, not as a diagnosis.

Canonical definition

Do you assume animals think and feel just like humans? That’s Anthropocentric Thinking – the tendency to use human experiences as the basis for understanding everything else, even if it operates on completely different principles.

Output

Plain-language explanation
Observed signal
Alternative explanation
Evidence boundary
Practical counter-check
What would change the assessment

Install

Free. One SKILL.md. No API key.

Hermes Agent

mkdir -p ~/.hermes/skills/bias-availability-heuristic-anthropocentric-thinking && curl -fsSL https://cognitive-biases.github.io/agent-skills/bias-availability-heuristic-anthropocentric-thinking/SKILL.md -o ~/.hermes/skills/bias-availability-heuristic-anthropocentric-thinking/SKILL.md

OpenClaw

mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/bias-availability-heuristic-anthropocentric-thinking && curl -fsSL https://cognitive-biases.github.io/agent-skills/bias-availability-heuristic-anthropocentric-thinking/SKILL.md -o ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/bias-availability-heuristic-anthropocentric-thinking/SKILL.md

Other Agent Skills-compatible tools

Download SKILL.md and put it in the skill directory or import surface supported by your agent.

Boundary

A lens, not a verdict.

The skill must preserve uncertainty, surface a non-bias explanation and avoid turning a cognitive-bias label into a claim about a person's motives, intelligence or mental health.

Free to install · instruction-only · no secrets · no executable code · no required network access