Free cognitive-bias Agent Skill

Recency Illusion

Use Recency Illusion 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

Have you recently noticed a word, trend, or idea and assumed it’s brand new? That’s Recency Illusion – the tendency to believe something is new just because you’ve only recently become aware of it, even if it has existed for decades or centuries.

Evidence, related concepts and current review state →

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-cognitive-bias-recency-illusion && curl -fsSL https://cognitive-biases.github.io/agent-skills/bias-cognitive-bias-recency-illusion/SKILL.md -o ~/.hermes/skills/bias-cognitive-bias-recency-illusion/SKILL.md

OpenClaw

mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/bias-cognitive-bias-recency-illusion && curl -fsSL https://cognitive-biases.github.io/agent-skills/bias-cognitive-bias-recency-illusion/SKILL.md -o ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/bias-cognitive-bias-recency-illusion/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