Devil's Advocate Skill

Challenge research assumptions and identify weaknesses in your arguments.

Purpose

Based on Scott Cunningham's Part 3: "Creating Devil's Advocate Agents for Tough Problems" - addressing the "LLM thing of over-confidence in diagnosing a problem."

For formal code audits with replication scripts and referee reports, use the Referee 2 agent instead (.claude/agents/referee2-reviewer.md). This skill is for quick adversarial feedback on arguments, not systematic audits.

When to Use

• Before submitting a paper
• When stuck on a research problem
• When you want to stress-test an argument
• During paper revision planning

When NOT to Use