Free cognitive-bias Agent Skill
Use Restraint Bias 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.
What the agent should do
Restraint bias is our tendency to overestimate how well we can control impulses, especially when the temptation or visceral state is not active yet. Calm, rested, full us is often very confident about what hungry, tired, angry, excited, or craving us will do. Future us was apparently not invited to the planning meeting.
Install
Hermes Agent
mkdir -p ~/.hermes/skills/bias-egocentric-bias-restraint-bias && curl -fsSL https://cognitive-biases.github.io/agent-skills/bias-egocentric-bias-restraint-bias/SKILL.md -o ~/.hermes/skills/bias-egocentric-bias-restraint-bias/SKILL.mdOpenClaw
mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/bias-egocentric-bias-restraint-bias && curl -fsSL https://cognitive-biases.github.io/agent-skills/bias-egocentric-bias-restraint-bias/SKILL.md -o ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/bias-egocentric-bias-restraint-bias/SKILL.mdOther Agent Skills-compatible tools
Download SKILL.md and put it in the skill directory or import surface supported by your agent.
Boundary
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.