What do I need to use Spot AI Mistakes?

How you use AI; A past miss; The stakes; Your trust level now.

Is Spot AI Mistakes free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Spot AI Mistakes

Q: How do I know the Spot AI Mistakes output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Focuses on the failure modes relevant to the person's use; Gives concrete tells for each pattern; Warns that confident tone isn't a correctness signal; Provides a fast check scaled to stakes.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-08-06 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-ai-native

Learn to recognize where and how AI tends to go wrong — the specific failure patterns — so you catch its mistakes on sight instead of getting burned by confident errors. Use when asked how do I know when AI is wrong, what are AI's common mistakes, how do I catch AI errors, or where does AI mess up. Produces the failure patterns most relevant to how you use AI (hallucinated facts, fake citations, outdated info, sycophancy, math slips, missed nuance), the tells that give each away, a quick check for the ones that would hurt you, and a calibrated trust level — so you develop the instinct to catch AI's errors before they cost you.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

🗣 Say this to your agent

“How do I know when AI is making something up?”“What are the common ways AI gets things wrong?”“How do I catch AI errors before they bite me?”“Where does AI tend to mess up in [my kind of work]?”“Teach me to spot when an AI answer is unreliable.”

What to give it

▸How you use AI — the domains and tasks (points at which failure modes matter most)

▸A past miss — a time AI got something wrong on you, if you have one (great teacher)

▸The stakes — what a missed error would cost in your use

▸Your trust level now — where you're too trusting or too skeptical

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Focuses on the failure modes relevant to the person's use

✓Gives concrete tells for each pattern

✓Warns that confident tone isn't a correctness signal

✓Provides a fast check scaled to stakes

✓Calibrates trust per-domain, not blanket

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**A generic list** of AI failures with no tells or relevance.

**Trusting confident tone** as a sign it's right.

**Blanket distrust** that makes AI useless, or blanket trust that gets you burned.

**Over-verifying everything** instead of the dangerous ones.

**No calibration** to where AI is actually reliable for you.

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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🔌 Embed this skill

Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:

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