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TL;DR

Three instruction files that make AI assistants challenge your product idea instead of immediately helping you build it.

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  root((Anti Sycophant Skills))
    What it does
      Challenges ideas
      Off switch aware
      Three skill files
    Tech stack
      Markdown
    Use cases
      Prove the premise
      Hobby or business
      One real conversation
    Audience
      Founders
      Product builders

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Why would anyone build with this?

REASON 1

Push back on a new product idea by asking who the buyer is before writing code.

REASON 2

Distinguish whether you are building a real business or just a hobby project.

REASON 3

Get pushed toward one real conversation with a potential buyer instead of a survey or poll.

REASON 4

Load an off-switch aware skill that stops nagging once you've validated your idea.

What's in the stack?

Markdown

How it stacks up

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Complexity1/51/52/5
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How do you spin it up?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

Wtf does this do

This is a collection of three instruction files designed to change how AI assistants behave when you describe a product idea. By default, most AI tools respond to "I want to build X" by helping you build it: suggesting a tech stack, naming the product, sketching a plan. They rarely ask whether anyone would actually pay for it. This pack tries to interrupt that habit. The three pieces are called skills, which are plain Markdown files you load into an AI assistant's instructions. Each one targets a specific pattern. The first, prove-the-premise, activates when someone says they want to build something and pushes back by naming who the buyer would be and what the weakest assumption is before any code gets written. The second, hobby-or-business, activates when someone asks how to monetize something and asks whether they are actually building a business with real buyers or a hobby they are enjoying. The third, one-real-conversation, activates when someone asks how to validate an idea and rejects shortcuts like Reddit polls, landing page signups, or asking the AI to roleplay as a customer. It pushes toward a single real conversation with an actual potential buyer instead. All three skills include an explicit off-switch. If you have already done the work the skill is designed to prompt, such as talking to real customers or deciding you are building for fun rather than for income, the skill steps aside and stops pushing back. The README notes that skills without off-switches just become nagging. The files work with Claude, Gemini, Cursor, ChatGPT, and any other AI tool that accepts a system prompt or rules file. The README includes separate installation instructions for each of those tools. The project is released under the MIT license. Contributions are accepted if they catch a specific failure pattern and include a clear off-switch. Generic prompts telling the AI to be more critical are not accepted.

Yoink these prompts

Prompt 1
Load the prove-the-premise skill and challenge my new product idea.
Prompt 2
Use the hobby-or-business skill to check whether my project is really a business.
Prompt 3
Apply the one-real-conversation skill before I build a landing page for validation.
Prompt 4
Install these anti-sycophant skills into Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT.

Frequently asked questions

wtf is anti-sycophant-ai-agent-skills?

Three instruction files that make AI assistants challenge your product idea instead of immediately helping you build it.

What license does anti-sycophant-ai-agent-skills use?

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

How hard is anti-sycophant-ai-agent-skills to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is anti-sycophant-ai-agent-skills for?

Mainly pm founder.

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