roast

Roast: Devil's Advocate Analysis

Overview

This skill produces evidence-based constructive critique through 5 specialized HackerNews commenter personas: Skeptical Senior, Well-Actually Pedant, Enthusiastic Newcomer, Contrarian Provocateur, and Pragmatic Builder. The workflow spawns these personas in parallel, validates all claims against actual files and lines, and synthesizes findings into an improvement-focused report.

Key constraints baked into the workflow:

• CLAUDE.md must be read and followed before analysis begins
• Read-only mode (no Write, Edit, destructive Bash) is mandatory — enforced via read-only-ops skill invocation
• Every claim must reference specific file:line locations and be validated against actual evidence before appearing in the final report
• All 5 personas must complete before validation begins — no partial analysis
• Final report must include both validated strengths and problems, prioritized by impact
• Unvalidated claims are dismissed; unfounded critiques are shown with evidence explaining why
• Analysis must be direct and focused — no elaborate frameworks beyond the 5-persona + validation pattern
• Sarcasm and mockery are stripped during synthesis; technical accuracy and file references are preserved

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Deep References

When	Load	Content
Phase 5: writing the synthesized report	references/report-template.md	Full report template with tone transformation rules

Instructions

Phase 1: ACTIVATE READ-ONLY MODE

Goal: Establish guardrails before any analysis begins.

Call the Skill tool with read-only-ops.

skill: read-only-ops

This ensures no modifications can occur during the analysis workflow.

Allowed operations:

• Read tool for file contents
• Glob tool for file patterns
• Grep tool for content search
• Bash: ls, wc, du, git status, git log, git diff

Forbidden operations:

• Write tool -- no file creation
• Edit tool -- no file modification
• Bash: rm, mv, cp, mkdir, touch, git add, git commit, git push