nyldn/debate-kickoff
skills/octopus-starter-pack/debate-kickoff/SKILL.md
Starter: frame a decision as a multi-model debate — picks sides, seats providers, and launches /octo:debate with a well-formed motion
$ install --global
skillsauthnpx skillsauth add nyldn/claude-octopus debate-kickoffInstall this skill globally with one command. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
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SKILL.md
- name:
- debate-kickoff
- disable-model-invocation:
- true
- description:
- Starter: frame a decision as a multi-model debate — picks sides, seats providers, and launches /octo:debate with a well-formed motion
Debate Kickoff (Starter Pack)
Turn a loosely stated decision ("Redis or Memcached?", "monorepo vs polyrepo") into a well-formed multi-model debate.
When to use
The user has a two-or-more-sided technical decision and wants adversarial perspectives from different model families rather than one model's opinion.
Steps
- Extract the motion. Restate the user's question as a single debatable proposition (for example: "This project should use Redis over Memcached for session storage"). Confirm silently from context; do not interrogate the user.
- Check seats. Run
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/helpers/check-providers.shand note which providers are available. A debate needs at least two seatable non-Claude providers for cross-lab disagreement; if only Claude is available, say so and offer a single-model pro/con instead. - Assign sides. Give each available provider an explicit stance (affirmative, negative, or skeptic). Prefer cross-lab pairings (for example Codex affirmative, Antigravity negative) so disagreement is structural, not stylistic.
- Launch. Invoke
/octo:debatewith the motion and the side assignments. Display the standard Octopus banner with provider indicators before dispatch. - Synthesize. After rounds complete, summarize where the models converged, where they genuinely disagreed, and give one recommendation with the strongest surviving argument.
Guardrails
- External seats cost money; state the expected cost band from the CLAUDE.md cost table before dispatch.
- Never fabricate a provider's position. If a seat fails, report the failure and continue with the remaining seats.
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