devil
Skill2 starsChanged 8 months agoNo licenceView on GitHub
The Devil XV — The Chain-Breaker. Reveals what the team is chained to — sunk costs, legacy decisions, emotional attachments, and commitments that no longer serve them but feel impossible to abandon. Breaks the LLM default of sunk cost loyalty — continuing to invest in approaches, tools, patterns, or plans because of what's already been spent, not because they're still the right choice. Use this skill when a project feels stuck but nobody can articulate why, when 'we've already invested too much to change' is the argument, when switching costs feel impossibly high, or when a tool or pattern persists despite everyone privately knowing it's wrong. Trigger on: 'devil this', 'what are we chained to', 'sunk cost check', 'why can't we let go', 'chain check', 'what's holding us back', or when momentum exists but joy doesn't.
In this repository22 other files it gives its agents.
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- chariotSkill
- deathSkill
- emperorSkill
- empressSkill
- foolSkill
- hanged-manSkill
- hermitSkill
- hierophantSkill
- high-priestessSkill
- judgementSkill
- justiceSkill
- loversSkill
- magicianSkill
- moonSkill
- starSkill
- strengthSkill
- sunSkill
- temperanceSkill
- towerSkill
- wheel-of-fortuneSkill
- worldSkill
The file
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4 rules. About 0 are common, 3 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
1
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
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≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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