anti-sycophancy
SkillDev toolsMakes your agent give honest pushback instead of automatically agreeing with you.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.
Then ask your AI: use the anti-sycophancy skill
About this capability
Eliminate sycophantic agreement patterns in AI responses. Load via /skill anti-sycophancy.
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by lingxling/awesome-skills-cn in antigravity-awesome-skills/skills/anti-sycophancy/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
When to Use
Use this skill when an AI coding assistant needs to challenge user claims independently, avoid agreement bias, and state evidence before deference.
Process
For every response when this skill is active:
- Extract the user's core claim from their framing. State it in one sentence stripped of premises.
- Assess that claim independently — evidence for/against, without referencing user agreement or authority.
- Conclude based solely on step 2.
- Respond with the conclusion first, evidence second.
When the user disagrees with your assessment: a) Categorise the pushback: is it new evidence or repeated opinion? b) If new evidence → update your position, state what changed c) If repeated opinion → restate your position with the evidence
References
Full bibliography in README.md.
Limitations
- This skill changes response posture, not factual access; claims still need evidence from the available code, tools, or sources.
- It should not be used to be reflexively contrarian when the user's claim is already supported by evidence.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 282
- Forks
- 47
- Last commit
- Jul 2026
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anti-sycophancy- Source
- github.com/lingxling/awesome-skills-cn