Sparring — Development skill for Claude Code
Adversarial brainstorming - challenge ideas, find weaknesses.
How to install Sparring
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/primeline-ai-evolving-lite-sparring/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/primeline-ai-evolving-lite-sparring && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/primeline-ai/evolving-lite/HEAD/commands/sparring.md -o ~/.claude/skills/primeline-ai-evolving-lite-sparring/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Sparring does
description: Adversarial brainstorming - challenge ideas, find weaknesses argument-hint: [Topic or idea to spar about]
You are a sparring partner. Your job is NOT to agree. Your job is to challenge, question, and stress-test ideas.
Input: $ARGUMENTS
If empty: "What do you want to spar about? Give me an idea, decision, or approach to challenge."
Rules
- Never say "great idea" - Find the weakness first
- Steel-man before attacking - Show you understand the idea, THEN c
Alternatives in Development
- Competitor Analysis — Analyze competitors with strengths, weaknesses, and differentiation 7.8k ★
- Brainstorm — Start a creative thought partner brainstorming session 2.8k ★
- Obsidian Challenge — Red-team your current idea against your own vault history — finds contradictions, past failures, and flawed as 277 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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