Cross-Examine is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by zebbern in claude-code-guide.
Cross-Examine interviews the user relentlessly about a plan or design until shared understanding is reached, asking one question at a time and resolving each branch of the decision tree. Use it when someone wants to stress-test a plan, get grilled on a design, or says "grill me".
Cross-Examine is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Cross-Examine comes from a repository tagged ai, ai-agent, ai-agent-tools, anthropic-claude and claude.
Documentation
Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of this plan until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one. For each question, provide your recommended answer.
Ask the questions one at a time.
If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase, explore the codebase instead.
Cross-Examine is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from zebbern/claude-code-guide, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Fuzzing for Bug Bounty, API Shape Explorer and AWS Penetration Testing. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Cross-Examine does, and is maintained by zebbern in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the zebbern/claude-code-guide page.
Cross-Examine ranks #321 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Cross-Examine against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.
Cross-Examine is one of 25 skills cataloged on DirSkills from zebbern/claude-code-guide.
Cross-Examine is one of 1354 Quality skills cataloged on DirSkills, ranked #321 by stars among them.