think-authentic-dissent SKILL.md skillA
think-authentic-dissent from product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-authentic-dissent@v0.1.0Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills
- Path
skills/think-authentic-dissent/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Jun 1, 2026
- Size
- 4,647 bytes
- Repository stars
- 21
- License
- Apache-2.0
Checks whether a decision has genuine minority dissent or only smooth surface consensus, identifies who actually holds a contrary view, and plans how to elicit and protect real dissent, flagging clearly where a view is constructed rather than authentically held. Use when consensus feels too easy, or to set up genuine challenge before a high-stakes call.
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
<!-- thinking-framework-skills | https://github.com/product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills | Apache-2.0 --> # Authentic Dissent Genuine minority dissent makes a group reason better: a person who truly holds a contrary view makes the majority search more broadly and consider more options, even when the dissenter is wrong. The catch, established by the same research, is that **role-played devil's advocacy does not replicate this** - assigned dissent gets discounted as performance. So an AI cannot *be* the dissent; anything a model argues against a plan is constructed, the weaker kind. This skill therefore does not pretend to be the dissenter. It engineers the conditions for real dissent: it audits whether genuine dissent exists, surfaces who holds it, plans how to elicit and protect it, and flags constructed dissent as constructed. The output is a **dissent audit and plan**. ## When to Use - A group decision shows suspiciously smooth consensus and nobody is really pushing back. - You can influence how challenge is gathered (who speaks, anonymous input, outside reviewers). - Before a high-stakes call where you want genuine, not performed, challenge. ## When NOT to Use …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-authentic-dissent@sha256:afe7dbf29d91a565The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 1, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills · 21 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
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