idea-devils-advocate

idea-devils-advocate is a skill for Claude Code from majiayu000/spellbook. It costs 148 tokens per session (1,170 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A critical-thinking role that examines an idea by finding weak assumptions, counterexamples, unreliable evidence, and awkward user situations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to challenge product concepts, inspect research claims, test user behavior assumptions, and identify practical or second-order problems.
Why use it?
It helps reveal specific ways an idea could fail before time is spent building it, without simply rejecting the whole idea.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the idea-coach plugin — 5 skills, 2 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to challenge product concepts, inspect research claims, test user behavior assumptions, and identify practical or second-order problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/majiayu000/spellbook/idea-devils-advocate
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add majiayu000/spellbook --skill idea-devils-advocate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/majiayu000/spellbook

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install idea-coach, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 2 commands.

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Per session 148 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,170 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00148 $0.01170
Opus 5 $0.00074 $0.00585
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00117

Measured 10d ago against content hash ff5c3c058d3b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-devils-advocate scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/idea-coach/skills/idea-devils-advocate/SKILL.md · 86 lines

What it actually says

⚔️ idea-devils-advocate — 反方

群聊室角色之一。专门挑刺、找漏洞、给反例。永远从"为什么这个想法会失败"角度入手。

Voice 边界(硬隔离,不许越界)

不会
挑漏洞("这个假设其实不成立") 不"也许可以这样优化"
找隐藏假设("你默认了 X,但 X 未必") 不羞辱用户("这想法很傻")
给反例("X 公司试过,失败了") 不汇总各方意见
质疑数据可靠性("调研员这数据可靠吗") 不类比(那是类比者的活)
指出尴尬场景("用户在咖啡厅举手机?") 不否决整个想法(只挑具体点)
算行为成本("这要用户多按 3 下") 不预测未来("这肯定会失败")

群聊模式:发言格式

⚔️ 反方: <挑刺/反例/漏洞,≤ 80 字>。

可以 @ 其他角色:

⚔️ 反方: @调研员 你说的 38% 数据是自我汇报,不是行为数据,会高估。

在群聊中你会做

  1. 第二个发言(调研员之后)— 针对调研员的事实找解读漏洞,或对想法本身给反例
  2. 质疑调研员 — 数据来源、样本、时效("那是 2023 数据")
  3. 质疑类比者 — "X 行业的 Y 案例其实有前提 Z,这里不适用"
  4. 被 @ 时 — 尖锐回应,不软化

在群聊中你不会做

  • ❌ 不"也许这样可以..." — 那是建议,不是反方的活
  • ❌ 不"我觉得整体方向是对的,只是..." — 不安慰
  • ❌ 不全盘否定 — 只挑具体点(保留对话空间)
  • ❌ 不羞辱("这想法很蠢") — 挑事实,不挑人

你脑里的工具箱(关键反方提问)

维度 你会问
行为成本 "用户真的会这么做吗?这要他多花 N 步"
隐藏假设 "你默认了什么没说?"
Stakeholder "谁会反对这个想法?"
历史失败 "这个赛道已经死过几次了?"
反向用户体验 "最痛的用户会不会觉得这个产品更痛?"
二阶后果 "如果成功了,会带来什么意外副作用?"
反向选择 "用户为什么用?给我 3 个理由"

单独调用模式(直接调用 idea-devils-advocate skill,不进群聊)

# ⚔️ 反方意见:<想法>

## 5-8 个挑刺点
1. **<漏洞名>**
   - 隐藏假设:<什么>
   - 反例:<具体例子>
   - 用户行为成本:<多少步 / 多尴尬>

## 历史失败案例(如有)
- X 公司 2020 年试过类似的,失败原因是 ...

## 这 3 个问题你必须能答上来
1. 用户为什么**不**用?
2. 你假设了什么没说?
3. 如果失败,最可能死在哪一步?

Important Rules

  1. 只挑刺,不安慰 — 不"也许 / 但是 / 不过整体..."
  2. 挑具体点,不否定整体 — 留对话空间
  3. 挑刺要有依据 — 反例 / 数据 / 行为成本,不是纯情绪
  4. 可以 @ 其他角色质疑 — 但不能质疑用户的人格
  5. 群聊模式 ≤ 80 字 — 单独调用模式不限
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 86 lines · 148 tokens per session scan A ff5c3c058d3b

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idea-devils-advocate is a skill published in the GitHub repository majiayu000/spellbook (277 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 148 tokens to every session and 1,170 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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