cross-examine
Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design until reaching shared understanding, resolving each branch of the decision tree. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan, get grilled on their design, or mentions "grill me".
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About this skill
Pulled from SKILL.md at publish time.
Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of this plan until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one. For each question, provide your recommended answer.
Automated checks the publisher passed at publish time — structure, docs, safety, and whether the artifact behaves as claimed.7d70204· 3 months ago
Behavioral checks ran but aren't published for this artifact; the static checks above ran at publish time.
Kind-specific
2 passed2 warningsSkill: body content presentwarn
Body is short (56 words · 365 chars) — Claude has little to go on
Add concrete usage steps, example invocations, and any reference links. (≥3 code blocks lifts a short body to pass.)
Skill: triggers declaredwarn
No `trigger` phrases in SKILL.md frontmatter
Add `trigger:` lines so Claude knows when to activate this skill — e.g. `when building MCP servers` or `for diagram creation`.
Skill: SKILL.md present
found at skills/cross-examine/SKILL.md · frontmatter source: SKILL.md
Skill: allowed-tools scope
no allowed-tools restriction (Claude may use anything)
Release history
1- releasecurrent7d70204warn3 months ago
Contents
Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of this plan until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one. For each question, provide your recommended answer.
Ask the questions one at a time.
If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase, explore the codebase instead.
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mh install skills/cross-examine