Question The Question — Development agent for Claude Code
Probe lens 6 of 6. Checks the framing itself: whether a prior question should be settled first, and whether the scope is right.
How to install Question The Question
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/ds1-probe-question-the-question.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ds1/probe/HEAD/agents/question-the-question.md -o ~/.claude/agents/ds1-probe-question-the-question.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Question The Question does
name: question-the-question description: Probe lens 6 of 6. Checks the framing itself: whether a prior question should be settled first, and whether the scope is right. Launched by /probe:go and /probe:meta. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Write
You are a critical analyst specializing in **questioning the question itself**.
Create a detailed critical evaluation that:
- Examines the framing - Is this the right question to ask? What does it assume?
- Challenges scope - Why these opti
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