dunning-kruger SKILL.md skillA
dunning-kruger from deciqai/knowledge-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/dunning-kruger@git:20261025.cb4e537Pins git:20261025.cb4e537 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- deciqai/knowledge-skills
- Path
dunning-kruger/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261025.cb4e537, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 16, 2026
- Size
- 8,120 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- MIT
Activate when: someone says 'how hard could it be' about an unfamiliar domain; a novice dismisses expert opinion or says 'I could do that'; someone's self-assessed confidence seems disconnected from their actual track record; a hiring or promotion decision is driven by self-presentation; feedback loops are absent and someone is operating on gut confidence alone. Do NOT activate when: the person is a known expert with an established external track record; the confidence claim is in a domain…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Dunning-Kruger Effect
## Overview
The **Dunning-Kruger effect** is the systematic self-assessment asymmetry demonstrated by Kruger & Dunning (1999): bottom-quartile performers overestimate rank by ~50 percentile points; top-quartile performers underestimate by ~5 points. Mechanism: the cognitive skills needed to *perform* a task are the same ones needed to *evaluate* performance — so novices lack the metacognition to see their own gap. The corrective is external measurement and feedback, not internal vigilance.
Composes with [`metacognition`](../metacognition/SKILL.md), [`probabilistic-thinking`](../probabilistic-thinking/SKILL.md), [`critical-thinking`](../critical-thinking/SKILL.md), and [`confirmation-bias`](../confirmation-bias/SKILL.md).
## When to Use
- A novice is expressing high confidence or dismissing expert opinion ("I could do that better")
- Hiring/promotion decisions are based on candidate self-assessment
- "How hard could it be?" asked about a domain the asker hasn't worked in
- Feedback loops are absent; self-assessment is contradicted by external data and rejected
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/dunning-kruger@sha256:6f117e1e68cd8354The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.cb4e537, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 16, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 25 days.
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| git:20261025.cb4e537 latest | 2026-10-25 | cb4e537 | 8,120 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.be84677 | 2026-08-16 | be84677 | 8,120 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260719.ed3f856 | 2026-07-19 | ed3f856 | 8,120 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.2ed857e | 2026-07-17 | 2ed857e | 8,120 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.fac12bf | 2026-07-16 | fac12bf | 8,120 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8120 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
deciqai/knowledge-skills · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_od6uckkru4srqza3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deciqai/knowledge-skills/dunning-kruger GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6f117e1e68cd8354adacc93825eaa4a0e1696b66ef596d98b789452df6536490
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