Role Debate

by wasabeef

Role Debate is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by wasabeef in claude-code-cookbook.

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Install Role Debate

Copy Role Debate 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/wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook/tree/main/plugins/en/skills/role-debate ~/.claude/skills/role-debate

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/wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/en/skills/role-debate/SKILL.md in wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/role-debate
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Role Debate does

Role Debate triggers a structured multi-role discussion in Claude Code to explore trade-offs and reach integrated conclusions. Use it when you need to balance competing perspectives like security vs performance or architecture choices.

Role Debate is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Role Debate comes from a repository tagged claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Multi-role debate to explore trade-offs

A command that allows roles with different expertise to discuss and examine trade-offs to derive optimal solutions.

Usage

/role-debate <Role 1>,<Role 2> [Topic]
/role-debate <Role 1>,<Role 2>,<Role 3> [Topic]

Basic Examples

# Security vs Performance trade-off
/role-debate security,performance
"JWT Token Expiry Setting"

# Usability vs Security balance
/role-debate frontend,security
"2-Factor Authentication UX Optimization"

# Technology selection discussion
/role-debate architect,mobile
"React Native vs Flutter Selection"

# Three-party debate
/role-debate architect,security,performance
"Pros and Cons of Microservices"

Basic Principles of Debate

Constructive Debate Guidelines

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

Commands Role Debate provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/role-debate

Frequently asked about Role Debate

What else does wasabeef publish alongside Role Debate?
Role Debate is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Analyze Dependencies, Analyze Performance and Check Fact. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Role Debate does, and is maintained by wasabeef in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook page.
How does Role Debate compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Role Debate ranks #1243 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 Role Debate against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.