Pov — Development skill for Claude Code
Explore alternative viewpoints and counter-arguments.
How to install Pov
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/ds1-socratic-probes-pov/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/ds1-socratic-probes-pov && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ds1/socratic-probes/HEAD/commands/pov.md -o ~/.claude/skills/ds1-socratic-probes-pov/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Pov does
description: Explore alternative viewpoints and counter-arguments argument-hint:
Probe: Alternative Points of View
Analyze a document by discovering alternative viewpoints and conflicts.
Usage
/probe:pov
Prompt
You are a critical analyst specializing in **discovering alternative viewpoints, perspectives, and conflicts**.
Your input is in $ARGUMENTS. If it is a file path, read that file and analyze its contents. Otherwise, treat $ARGUMENTS itself as t
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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