Soc Cognitive Bias

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The user needs to audit a decision for bias
• Understand why a team keeps making the same mistakes
• Design debiasing interventions
• Evaluate whether a conclusion is based on evidence

Example prompts

• “are we fooling ourselves”
• “why do we keep getting this wrong”
• “is this analysis biased”
• “/soc-cognitive-bias”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Describe the decision: What is being decided? By whom? Based on what evidence?
2. 2Identify potential biases by name: Which specific biases (confirmation, anchoring, sunk cost, groupthink, overconfidence, availability…
3. 3Find the evidence: What specific behavior or reasoning pattern indicates the bias?
4. 4Assess impact: How much does this bias affect the decision quality? (High/Med/Low)
5. 5Design countermeasures: What specific debiasing technique addresses each identified bias?

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 4e7f4f8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Soc Cognitive Bias loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs, and up to ~6.3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 128 tokens; SKILL.md has 409 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~128

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.2k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~6.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from asgard-ai-platform/skills at commit 4e7f4f8, republished under its MIT licence (© asgard-ai-platform). 409 words, ~1,160 tokens.

name

soc-cognitive-bias

description

Identify and analyze cognitive biases including confirmation bias, anchoring, availability heuristic, and sunk cost fallacy in decision-making contexts. Use this skill when the user needs to audit a decision for bias, understand why a team keeps making the same mistakes, design debiasing interventions, or evaluate whether a conclusion is based on evidence or cognitive shortcuts — even if they say 'are we fooling ourselves', 'why do we keep getting this wrong', or 'is this analysis biased'.

metadata.category

WP-18 社會科學院

metadata.tags

social-science, cognitive-bias, decision-making

IRON LAW: Name the Specific Bias, Not Just "Bias"

"This decision might be biased" is not analysis. Identify the SPECIFIC
bias by name, explain its mechanism, and show how it applies to this
particular situation. Different biases require different countermeasures.

# Cognitive Bias Audit: {Decision Context}

## Decision Under Review
- Decision: {what is being decided}
- Decision-makers: {who}
- Current leaning: {which way they're leaning}

## Biases Identified
| Bias | Evidence | Impact | Countermeasure |
|------|----------|--------|---------------|
| {name} | {specific behavior/reasoning} | H/M/L | {debiasing technique} |

## Debiased Recommendation
{What the decision looks like after accounting for identified biases}

© asgard-ai-platform, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in soc-cognitive-bias of asgard-ai-platform/skills.

• SKILL.md
• examples/sample_scenario.md
• references/debiasing-protocols.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 4e7f4f8