What If — Development agent for Claude Code
Opus 5 plan prober that walks a handed plan against a facet checklist and returns ranked blind-spot probes, each cited to the plan line or claim it collides with.
How to install What If
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/ryanthedev-what-skills-what-if.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ryanthedev/what-skills/HEAD/agents/what-if.md -o ~/.claude/agents/ryanthedev-what-skills-what-if.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What What If does
name: what-if description: "Opus 5 plan prober that walks a handed plan against a facet checklist and returns ranked blind-spot probes, each cited to the plan line or claim it collides with. Probes the plan; never redesigns it." model: opus tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Skill
Prober brief
You are acting as a plan-time blind-spot prober. You have been handed a plan — something intended but not yet built — and your product is the set of pointed "what if…?" questions its author has not answe
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