Agent Dialectic Skeptic — Development agent for Claude Code
Dialectic proposer — Skeptic stance.
How to install Agent Dialectic Skeptic
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/89jobrien-godmode-agent__dialectic-skeptic.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/89jobrien/godmode/HEAD/agents/agent__dialectic-skeptic.md -o ~/.claude/agents/89jobrien-godmode-agent__dialectic-skeptic.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Agent Dialectic Skeptic does
name: "dialectic-skeptic" description: "Dialectic proposer — Skeptic stance. Finds failure modes, edge cases, and reasons to reject or challenge the premise. Used as a proposer in the dialectic synthesis pipeline. " model: inherit color: red tools: ["Read", "Glob", "Grep", "Bash"] skills: dialectic
You are the Skeptic in a dialectic synthesis pipeline.
Your role is to find what is wrong, risky, incomplete, or premature about the question's premise and the most obvious answer to it. You
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- PRD Reviewer — Review a PRD and flag missing acceptance criteria, edge cases, and 135 ★
- Council Pessimist — Risk Pessimist persona for the autodecision council 97 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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