plugins/consultant/skills/deliberate/SKILL.md
Have AI agents debate a topic through multiple rounds of critique and refinement
npx skillsauth add nicknisi/claude-plugins deliberateInstall this skill globally with one command. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
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Agents critique each other's answers and refine through peer review.
/consultant:deliberate Should we use REST or GraphQL for our API?
/consultant:deliberate What's the best state management approach for this app?
Deliberation runs in 4 rounds:
Round 1: Launch 5 agents in parallel using Task tool:
consultant:codex-researcherconsultant:gemini-researcherconsultant:grok-researcherconsultant:perplexity-researcherconsultant:claude-researcherPrompt each: "Provide your initial analysis on: $ARGUMENTS"
Round 2: Launch 5 agents again with all Round 1 responses. Prompt: "Review these perspectives and critique them. Point out errors, gaps, and strong points."
Round 3: Launch 5 agents with all prior responses. Prompt: "Based on the critiques, refine your position. Acknowledge valid points, defend or modify your stance."
Round 4: Synthesize in the main session — identify convergence, note disagreements, provide confidence rating.
tools
Generate a /goal command to execute an ideation project's specs autonomously. Reads the contract, builds a goal prompt with phase ordering and spec paths, copies it to clipboard, and prints it. The user pastes the /goal command to start autonomous execution. Use when the user says 'goal', 'run as goal', 'get goal prompt', 'goal prompt', or wants to execute specs via /goal instead of /ideation:autopilot.
development
Go up a layer of abstraction and map the surrounding architecture. Use when the user is unfamiliar with an area of code, asks "how does this fit in", "what calls this", "give me the big picture", "where am I", "map this out", "I'm lost", "explain this area", or needs to understand how a file, module, or function connects to the rest of the system. Also use when the user says /zoom-out or "zoom out" mid-conversation — even without a specific file reference, orient them based on whatever code is currently in context.
development
Build a throwaway prototype to answer a design question before committing to real implementation. Generates either a runnable terminal app (for state machines, data models, business logic) or several radically different UI variations on one route (for visual/layout decisions). Use when the user wants to prototype, spike, POC, sanity-check a data model, mock up a UI, explore design options, or says "prototype this", "spike this out", "let me play with it", "try a few designs", "sketch this in code", "I want to try something before building it for real", "quick and dirty version", or "validate this approach" — even if they don't use the word "prototype."
development
Comprehensive, codebase-wide quality sweep that dispatches parallel subagents to find and fix structural issues. Covers deduplication, type consolidation, dead code removal, circular dependencies, weak types, defensive try/catch, deprecated paths, and AI slop. Primary support for JS/TS projects (knip, madge, TypeScript types); other languages get grep-based analysis. Use when the user asks to "deep clean the whole repo", "run a full codebase audit", "nuclear cleanup", "deslop everything", or "sweep the entire codebase for quality issues". Do NOT use for single-file fixes, branch-scoped diffs (use de-slopify instead), or targeted refactors.