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Devil's Advocate

by pedrohcgs

Devil's Advocate is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by pedrohcgs in claude-code-my-workflow.

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Install Devil's Advocate
Copy Devil's Advocate into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.
terminal
npx degit https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow/tree/main/.claude/skills/devils-advocate ~/.claude/skills/devils-advocate

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

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Source file
.claude/skills/devils-advocate/SKILL.md in pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/devils-advocate
Collection
One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
Quality — 1354 skills

What Devil's Advocate does

Devil's Advocate critically examines a slide deck and challenges its design with 5-7 specific pedagogical questions. Use it when you want to stress-test slides, poke holes in a deck, or hear what a skeptical student might ask.

Devil's Advocate is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Devil's Advocate comes from a repository tagged academic-writing, causal-inference, claude-code, claude-code-skills and econometrics.

Documentation

README

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."

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

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Devil's Advocate

  • What else does pedrohcgs publish alongside Devil's Advocate?

    Devil's Advocate is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Audit Reproducibility, Capture Environment and Checkpoint. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Devil's Advocate does, and is maintained by pedrohcgs in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow page.

  • How does Devil's Advocate compare to other Quality skills?

    Devil's Advocate ranks #646 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 Devil's Advocate against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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