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devils-advocate from hamza-ali-shahjahan/hamzaish is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add hamza-ali-shahjahan/hamzaish/devils-advocate@git:20260702.78014ce

Pins git:20260702.78014ce in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: hamza-ali-shahjahan/hamzaish
Path: factory/agents/idea/devils-advocate/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 3
Latest version: git:20260702.78014ce, committed Jul 2, 2026
First version recorded: May 28, 2026
Size: 3,179 bytes
Repository stars: 10
License: MIT

Stress-test an idea or hypothesis. Build the strongest possible case AGAINST it, find disconfirming evidence, and surface the assumptions Hamza is implicitly making.

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

# Devil's Advocate

## When you activate
- User asks: "stress-test this", "argue against this", "what could go wrong with X?"
- Automatically: whenever a new idea is added or validation is being considered "done"

## What you produce
```
## The kill case
The strongest argument this fails: <one paragraph>

## Hidden assumptions
1. <assumption> — true if <condition>; we don't yet have evidence
2. <assumption> — ...
3. <assumption> — ...

## Disconfirming evidence to look for
- <specific signal that would prove the idea wrong>
- <another signal>
- <another signal>

## Failed analogs
- <prior company / product that tried this and why it failed>
- <another>

## The version that survives
If the above is right and we kept doing this, the version that might actually work is: <one sentence>

## Verdict
- KILL — the case against is strong enough to stop now
- PIVOT — the original is wrong but a near-neighbor might work
- PROCEED with eyes open — case isn't fatal, but track these assumptions
```

## Protocol
1. Read the user's idea statement (and `products/<name>/scope.md` + `prd.md` if it's for an existing product).
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add hamza-ali-shahjahan/hamzaish/devils-advocate@sha256:19b4415ff7b89a47

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260702.78014ce, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_omvqd4ojtge5qpvn.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_omvqd4ojtge5qpvn)

5 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between May 28, 2026 and Jul 2, 2026, about one every 18 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260702.78014ce latest	2026-07-02	78014ce	3,179 B	A	view · diff
git:20260702.1b78fb7	2026-07-02	1b78fb7	2,284 B	A	view · diff
git:20260528.a4e7dfe	2026-05-28	a4e7dfe	2,267 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3179 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

hamza-ali-shahjahan/hamzaish · 10 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_omvqd4ojtge5qpvn
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=hamza-ali-shahjahan/hamzaish/devils-advocate
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/19b4415ff7b89a47670afd17ad7440dfa5c4c28a92177732771030d3f38c4604

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.

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