Adversarial 5-7 question challenge to a deck's pedagogical choices — ordering, prerequisites, cognitive load, motivation. Use when user says "devil's advocate", "poke holes in this deck", "push back on my slides", "stress-test the design", "what would a skeptical student ask?". Read-only; surfaces questions to force rethinking. Lighter than `/pedagogy-review`.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
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# devils-advocate
This skill's instructions live in [`.claude/skills/devils-advocate/SKILL.md`](../../../.claude/skills/devils-advocate/SKILL.md).
Read that file now and follow it, with the files it points to. Read [`AGENTS.md`](../../../AGENTS.md)
first if you have not already.
It was written for Claude Code. Running it from Codex, Antigravity or another agent:
- **Arguments.** Where it says `$ARGUMENTS`, use what the user asked for.
- **Claude Code agents.** Where a step hands work to an agent in `.claude/agents/` (through the
`Agent` or `Task` tool), do that step where it appears in the procedure: never later, and never
skip it. A step that gates what follows still gates it (`/commit` runs its verifier before it
commits). Read the agent's file for what the step checks.
- **Fresh context.** If the step needs a context that has not seen your work, for example a claim
verifier that must never see the draft, run it in a separate session or worker that has not
…
The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261106.a8c8716, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6wjyc4o2iskw4kve
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow/devils-advocate
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9ebecedac0f0546791b05efde82e9ba621ae7570da7737d5abf9e87a4990ce99
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow · .agents/skills/adjudicate-review/SKILL.md · Turn an incoming set of findings — from an AI reviewer, a referee report, a code review, a linter, or a second model —…
pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow · .agents/skills/audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md · Enforce the replication-protocol.md rule by cross-checking numeric claims in a manuscript against the actual R / Stata…
pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow · .agents/skills/blast-radius/SKILL.md · Before and after changing anything shared — a function's return value, a signature, a schema, a label set, a config…
pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow · .agents/skills/capture-environment/SKILL.md · Snapshot the computational environment for a replication package — detects the analysis stack (R / Stata / Python) and…
pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow · .agents/skills/coauthor-brief/SKILL.md · Generate a co-author / collaborator handoff brief for a multi-author, multi-machine project — summarizing what changed…
pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow · .agents/skills/commit/SKILL.md · Commit the current work — runs the quality, consistency and passport gates, branches off main if needed, stages…
pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow · .agents/skills/compile-latex/SKILL.md · Compile a Beamer LaTeX slide deck with XeLaTeX (3 passes + bibtex). Use when user says "compile", "build the slides"…
pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow · .agents/skills/create-lecture/SKILL.md · Create a new Beamer lecture `.tex` from source papers and materials, with notation consistency checks and the project's…
pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow · .agents/skills/credible-claims/SKILL.md · Research-brief + claim-record discipline for delegated or AI-assisted research work. Use when starting any substantive…
pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow · .agents/skills/deploy/SKILL.md · Render Quarto `.qmd` slides to HTML and sync to `docs/` for GitHub Pages. Use when user says "deploy", "publish the…
onewave-ai/claude-skills · devils-advocate/SKILL.md · Argues the strongest honest case against a decision, plan, belief, hire, pricing move, strategy, or piece of work the…
mathews-tom/armory · skills/devils-advocate/SKILL.md · Challenges AI-generated plans, code, and designs via pre-mortem, inversion, and Socratic questioning to surface blind…
eugenelim/agent-ready-repo · packs/desk-research/.apm/skills/devils-advocate/SKILL.md · Adversarially review a research artifact (`<topic-slug>-survey.md`) or a user-supplied claim. Searches for…
