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Interrogate a plan, decision, or design one question at a time until it holds — use to stress-test your own thinking before committing to it

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# Pressure Test Interview the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or design until you both reach a shared understanding of it. Walk each branch of the decision tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one at a time. This is not brainstorming. `skill-thought-partner` opens a space up and looks for what might be there; this closes one down and looks for what is wrong with it. Use this when there is already a position on the table and the risk is that it is wrong in a way nobody has said out loud. Adapted from the `grilling` skill in [mattpocock/skills](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills) (MIT). ## When To Use - The user has a plan, spec, or design and wants it attacked before they commit. - A decision keeps getting deferred because its dependencies are tangled. - Scope feels slippery and nobody can say precisely what is in it. - Before a large or hard-to-reverse change, where being wrong is expensive. ## When Not To Use - To generate options. That is `skill-decision-support`. - To explore an open space with no position yet. That is `skill-thought-partner`. - When the user wants the work done, not examined. Say so and stop. - When you can settle the question by reading the codebase. Read it instead. ## Inputs The plan, decision, or design under test, in whatever form exists — a document, a paragraph, or just the last few turns of conversation. Nothing needs writing up first; extracting the shape is part of the job. ## Workflow **Ask one question at a tim...

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Author
nyldn
Repository
nyldn/claude-octopus
Created
7 months ago
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Language
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