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devils-advocate

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Adversarially reviews whatever you bring it — prompts, strategies, plans, arguments, decisions, or workflows — and returns a structured, honest critique with scored dimensions and specific improvements. Combines a full prompt health check rubric with devil's advocate challenge modes for ideas, strategies, and decisions. Trigger this skill when the user says: "devil's advocate", "challenge this", "stress test", "poke holes in", "critique this", "what's wrong with", "find the flaws", "red team this", "what am I missing", "steelman the opposition", "evaluate my prompt", "review my prompt", "prompt health check", "rate my prompt", "is this a good prompt", "how can I improve this prompt", "evaluate this plan", "what could go wrong", "pre-mortem", "pressure test", "tear this apart", or any request to find weaknesses, gaps, or blind spots in something the user has shared. Also trigger when the user pastes a prompt, plan, strategy, or argument and asks for feedback — even without using these exact words.

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