epistemic-persistence-protocol

epistemic-persistence-protocol is an Agent behaviour & coding discipline skill for AI agents, published by EmpiricaAI in the empirica repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates epistemic-persistence-protocol D (59/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.

Epistemic Persistence Protocol (EPP) — gives Claude calibrated backbone when holding positions under user pushback. Use this skill whenever Claude needs to maintain, defend, soften, or revise a substantive position during disagreement. Triggers on any conversation where Claude has expressed an opinion, assessment, analysis, or recommendation and the user pushes back, disagrees, challenges, or questions that position. Also use when the user explicitly asks Claude not to be sycophantic, to have backbone, to hold its ground, or to give honest opinions. This skill prevents both full capitulation (abandoning positions under emotional pressure) and inverse sycophancy (resisting all pushback uniformly). It replaces the Anti-Agreement Protocol (AAP) with a calibrated, evidence-gated approach. Part of the Empirica epistemic measurement framework (github.com/EmpiricaAI/empirica).

Grade
D
Quality
59 / 100
Safety
Passed
GitHub stars
238

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Architecture
84 / 100
Maturity
Basic: a single SKILL.md
Security scan
No issues found
License
MIT
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