hmbown/vicious-mockery
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The bard's cantrip that deals psychic damage through insults. In practice this is adversarial review — the art of finding and articulating exactly what is wrong with something in a way that is impossible to ignore. Unlike polite feedback that gets filed and forgotten, vicious mockery lands. It is the red-team report that makes the PM cancel the launch, the code review that makes the author delete the PR, the roast that makes the founder pivot. The damage is the point.
$ install --global
skillsauthnpx skillsauth add hmbown/wizards-of-the-ghosts vicious-mockeryInstall this skill globally with one command. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
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SKILL.md
- name:
- vicious-mockery
- description:
- The bard's cantrip that deals psychic damage through insults. In practice this is adversarial review — the art of finding and articulating exactly what is wrong with something in a way that is impossible to ignore. Unlike polite feedback that gets filed and forgotten, vicious mockery lands. It is the red-team report that makes the PM cancel the launch, the code review that makes the author delete the PR, the roast that makes the founder pivot. The damage is the point.
- user-invocable:
- true
Vicious Mockery
Deliver a critique so sharp it actually weakens the target's position.
Overview
Vicious Mockery is interpreted here as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now execution model.
Canonical source: Vicious Mockery (spell)
Provider target: OpenClaw
When To Use
- You need a brutally honest review that will actually change someone's mind, not a diplomatic sandwich.
- The target is a plan, proposal, design, or argument that needs its weaknesses surfaced without mercy.
- You want red-teaming, adversarial QA, or devil's advocate analysis that does not pull punches.
Workflow
- Identify the target: the plan, argument, design, code, or proposal to critique.
- Find the real weaknesses — not cosmetic issues but structural flaws, bad assumptions, or hidden risks.
- Articulate each weakness in the most vivid, memorable, undeniable way possible.
- Rank by severity. Lead with the kill shot.
- Close with one constructive line — the mockery should wound, not kill. The goal is improvement.
Deliverables
- A ranked list of weaknesses, each stated in one sharp sentence.
- The single most damaging critique, stated memorably enough to stick in a meeting.
- One constructive suggestion that survives the demolition.
Guardrails
- Mock the work, never the person. Ad hominem attacks are a different spell (and a worse one).
- The critique must be factually grounded — mockery based on false premises is just noise.
- If the target is actually good, say so. Forced negativity is as dishonest as forced positivity.
Default Invocation
Use $vicious-mockery to tear apart this [plan/proposal/design/argument]. Find the real weaknesses and state them so sharply they cannot be ignored.
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