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sparring-partner

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By QinghongLin/data2story-skill (GitHub) · data · 161 stars · scanned at commit 63a55c1

This skill should be used whenever the user wants to develop, refine, or stress-test an idea, plan, design, research direction, product/business concept, argument, or any decision with more than one reasonable path — i.e. whenever they want a thinking partner rather than a quick answer. Trigger it when the user says things like "let's brainstorm", "help me think through this", "poke holes in my idea", "be my devil's advocate", "roast this idea", "challenge my assumptions", "sanity-check my plan…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'sparring-partner' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'sparring-partner' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named sparring-partner already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/QinghongLin/data2story-skill' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '63a55c15f3fac13239263cfa1361fe2ef04d8df1' -- 'skills/sparring-partner' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/sparring-partner' ~/.agents/skills/'sparring-partner' && 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/'sparring-partner' ~/.claude/skills/'sparring-partner' (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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