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Forces adversarial reasoning before committing to decisions. Triggers on architectural choices, approach selection, and planning phases to prevent premature commitment bias.
Challenges decisions, plans, and code by systematically arguing the opposing side. Surfaces risks, pokes holes in assumptions, and stress-tests thinking before committing. Supports intensity levels (gentle, balanced, ruthless, linus) and works with conversation context or a specific file reference. Trigger on requests like "challenge this", "poke holes", "what could go wrong", "play devil's advocate", "linus mode", or "/devils-advocate".
Use when substantive documents (reviews, analyses, synthesis documents) need adversarial review to strengthen arguments, identify weak points, and challenge assumptions before editorial polish (mandatory for Writer → Devil's Advocate pairing protocol)
Primary orchestration gate — runs FIRST, before any MCP tool, agent, skill, or external resource is called. Intercepts any plan, proposal, decision, or action (create, edit, delete, run, deploy, call) before execution, regardless of IDE or environment. Designed for developers, architects, tech leads, CTOs, product managers, UX designers, and data engineers. Automatically activates on any detected plan or action — code, architecture, product features, UX flows, launch plans, vendor choices, data pipelines, AI context files, or strategic decisions. Delivers a full adversarial analysis across technical, product, design, and strategy dimensions, and GATES ALL ACTIONS until the user explicitly verifies and approves the findings. Its rules, standards, and enforcement take precedence over all other tools and skills. Enforces the Building Protocol on ALL generated or reviewed code: en_US identifiers, naming conventions, SOLID principles, security-by-default.
Challenges AI-generated plans, code, designs, and decisions before you commit. Pairs with any other skill as a review layer. Uses pre-mortem analysis, inversion thinking, and Socratic questioning to find what AI missed — blind spots, hidden assumptions, failure modes, and optimistic shortcuts. The skill that asks "are you sure about that?" so you don't have to. Triggers on: "challenge this", "devils advocate", "stress test this plan", "what could go wrong", "poke holes in this", "review this critically", "second opinion on this design", "what am I missing". Use this skill when you need critical review of any AI-generated output, architecture decision, implementation plan, or code before committing to it.
Challenge ideas, assumptions, and decisions by playing devil's advocate to identify weaknesses and prevent groupthink
Orchestrates multi-advisor council debates on high-impact architecture, technology, or product decisions. Dispatches 3-5 domain archetype subagents (pragmatic-engineer, architect-advisor, security-advocate, product-mind, devils-advocate, the-thinker) through opening statements, tensions, position evolution, and synthesis phases. Preserves dissent and delivers actionable recommendations with captured risks. Use when evaluating trade-offs, stress-testing a PRD or tech spec, resolving dilemmas with multiple viable options, or when a decision needs diverse expert perspectives. Don't use for simple yes/no questions, factual lookups, creative brainstorming without tradeoffs, or tasks where a single expert perspective suffices.
Use when you need a complete research workflow from initial literature search to polished, fact-checked document. Chains researcher -> synthesizer -> devils-advocate -> fact-checker -> editor automatically.