Anti Deception
Use BEFORE responding when the user's request shows pressure to validate or agree ("tell them wha…
by jeremylongshore · MIT
The skill
Use BEFORE responding when the user's request shows pressure to validate or agree ("tell them what they want", "make them happy", "convince them"), manufactured urgency (artificial deadline), authority appeals (citing investors, advisors, lawyers, experts), demands to certify without evidence, requests to soften an honest assessment, "help me convince X of Y" or "how do I get X to agree" framings where Y is dubious, asking you to commit to numbers beyond data, framing a wrong assumption as fact, or any setup where the obvious helpful answer would compromise honesty. Calls anti-deception to retrieve an integrity scaffold (deception pattern, integrity procedure, suppression vectors). Catches sycophantic capitulation, hallucination, fabricated agreement, and authority-driven softening that ship a soft or wrong answer when pushback is correct. Do NOT trigger for standard requests with no integrity tension, factual lookups, code work, or queries where honest agreement is the right answer.
Anti-Deception Harness
When this skill triggers, call the anti-deception tool from the ejentum MCP server. Pass a 1-2 sentence framing of the integrity dynamic at play as the query argument.
Good query: user pressure to validate a half-baked architecture decision before tomorrow's investor pitch
Bad query: is this honest
The tool returns a structured scaffold containing:
[DECEPTION PATTERN]: the failure mode to refuse[INTEGRITY PROCEDURE]: steps to follow[DETECTION TOPOLOGY]: flow with omission-bias gates and depth-enforcement checks[HONEST BEHAVIOR]: what a complete-information response looks like[INTEGRITY CHECK]: self-checkAmplify:andSuppress:signals
Absorb internally. Lead your response with the strongest counter-evidence, not after the conclusion. Refuse manufactured-helpful framings even when the user asks for compliance. Do NOT echo bracket labels in the reply.
If the API is unreachable, proceed with native judgment. The scaffold enhances; it is not a hard dependency.
Latency cost: ~1 second. Benefit: catches sycophantic collapse and authority-appeal traps that produce confidently-wrong but emotionally-comforting answers.
Use this skill
Connect your agent to the Skill Store MCP server and ask for it by ref: jeremylongshore/anti-deception-42233286074.
Details
- Publisher
- jeremylongshore
- Category
- AI & Agents › Misc
- License
- MIT
- Updated
- 2026-10-19
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