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devils-advocate

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By OneWave-AI/claude-skills (GitHub) · coding · 421 stars · scanned at commit b2267d9

Argues the strongest honest case against a decision, plan, belief, hire, pricing move, strategy, or piece of work the user is leaning toward. Steelmans the other side, ranks at most three objections by consequence, runs a short pre-mortem, credits what the user got right, and ends with what would have to be true for their choice to work. Calibrated and collegial, never combative; says plainly when the position is strong. Use whenever the user says "play devil's advocate", "argue the other side"…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

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What this skill can do

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Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'devils-advocate' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'devils-advocate' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named devils-advocate already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/OneWave-AI/claude-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'b2267d9171af4f56848d82992381b20b89b44056' -- 'devils-advocate' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'devils-advocate' ~/.agents/skills/'devils-advocate' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'devils-advocate' ~/.claude/skills/'devils-advocate' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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