This skill should be used when the user asks to "play devil's advocate", "challenge my identification", "what are the weaknesses in my paper", "adversarial critique", "stress test my argument", "find holes in my research design", "what would a hostile referee say", or "challenge my empirical strategy". Produces 5-7 specific adversarial challenges targeting the identification strategy, theoretical mechanism, and empirical design of a research project.
How to install devils-advocate?
haipingxu/social-science-claude-scholar/devils-advocate
$npx -y skills add haipingxu/social-science-claude-scholar --skill devils-advocateInstalls into the current project.
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Run `npx skills use "https://github.com/haipingxu/social-science-claude-scholar" --skill "haipingxu/social-science-claude-scholar/devils-advocate"` and follow the generated skill instructions now. Read its complete output, redirecting it to a temporary file first if necessary. Resolve relative paths from the supporting-files directory it provides.
Use the skills in "https://github.com/haipingxu/social-science-claude-scholar" that are relevant to the current task. Run `npx skills add "https://github.com/haipingxu/social-science-claude-scholar"` and select the relevant skills, then follow their instructions.
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