devils-advocate is agent-read markdown (skill) from pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow: 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`..
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified before it reaches your agent: the main file against the SHA-256 recorded here, the others against the git hashes of its source commit. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
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# Devil's Advocate Review
Critically examine a slide deck and challenge its design with 5-7 specific pedagogical questions.
**Philosophy:** "We arrive at the best possible presentation through active dialogue."
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## Setup
1. **Read the target file** (the lecture being challenged)
2. **Read the knowledge base** in `.claude/rules/` for notation conventions and narrative arc
3. If applicable, **read adjacent lectures** for narrative continuity
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## Challenge Categories
Generate 5-7 challenges from these categories:
### 1. Ordering Challenges
> "Could students understand this better if we showed X before Y?"
### 2. Prerequisite Challenges
> "Do students have the background for this notation at this point?"
### 3. Gap Challenges
> "Should we include an intuitive example before this formal proof?"
### 4. Alternative Presentation Challenges
> "Here are 2 other ways to visualize/present this concept."
### 5. Notation Conflict Challenges
> "This symbol conflicts with earlier lecture usage."
### 6. Cognitive Load Challenges
> "This slide has too many new symbols. Can we split?"
### 7. Book Vision Challenges
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Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 for exact bytes. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install fetches those bytes again and checks them, so it installs them exactly or fails.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xysww2sdm7floknk
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow/devils-advocate
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/981e681fd90301b80aa64f96940d83a4be016b7e913a421059fe4e24f768c1e2
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