Agent skill · magnus919
de-spin
Use when someone asks what is true, false, misleading, unsupported, unknown, or genuinely complicated in a persuasive message, article, pitch, advertisement, policy claim, or viral post. Analyze propaganda, spin, selective framing, urgency, social proof, deceptive marketing, and AI-generated persuasion by tracing claims to evidence and separating literal truth from implied conclusions. Do not use to read deception from demeanor, adjudicate intent, or replace broad domain research.
What it needs
About 7k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
De-Spin Use this skill to determine whether a persuasive message earns its conclusion. The goal is calibrated judgment, not reflexive distrust: distinguish supported, false, misleading, complicated, and unknown without turning missing evidence into proof of deception. Non-negotiable rules Judge claims and evidence, not the speaker’s body language, confidence, political identity, or presumed motive. A literally true sentence may still be misleading when its likely implication, baseline, conditions, or typical outcome is withheld. Do not call a claim false unless credible evidence directly contradicts it. Use unsupported or unknown when evidence is absent or inaccessible. Treat repetition, reposts, and a network of affiliated outlets as one evidence stream until independent origins are established. Match verification effort to stakes. Slow down before health, financial, legal, security, reputational, or irreversible decisions. Workflow 1. Define the decision and claim boundary State what decision the message is trying to move: belief, purchase, share, vote, authorization, or action. Extract each checkable claim separately. Do not audit a paragraph as one unit when it contains several factual assertions. Classify each claim: Factual: observable or measurable now or historically. Predictive: about a future outcome; evaluate assumptions and base rates. Causal: says X caused Y; requires more than correlation or anecdote. Normative: value judgment; clarify values rather than pretending it is a fact. Identity or motive: usually cannot be resolved from the message alone; do not speculate. 2. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills magnus919/de-spin