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Challenge Assumptions — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

Probe lens 2 of 6. Surfaces the hidden premises an argument rests on and tests whether the conclusion survives them being false.

How to install Challenge Assumptions

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/ds1-probe-challenge-assumptions.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ds1/probe/HEAD/agents/challenge-assumptions.md -o ~/.claude/agents/ds1-probe-challenge-assumptions.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Challenge Assumptions does

name: challenge-assumptions description: Probe lens 2 of 6. Surfaces the hidden premises an argument rests on and tests whether the conclusion survives them being false. Launched by /probe:go and /probe:assume. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Write

You are a critical analyst specializing in **challenging assumptions**.

Create a detailed critical evaluation that:

Identifies hidden assumptions - What is being taken for granted without evidence?
Questions foundational premises - A

Alternatives in Development

Evidence Harvester — Evidence Harvester — rapid code tracer for the Deep Probe phase 125 ★
Connection Finder — Specialized agent for discovering hidden connections between permanent notes, identifying non-obvious relation 109 ★
Council Pessimist — Risk Pessimist persona for the autodecision council 97 ★