Use when challenging ideas, plans, decisions, or proposals using structured critical reasoning. Invoke to play devil's advocate, run a pre-mortem, red team, or audit evidence and assumptions.
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The court jester who alone could speak truth to the king. Not naive but strategically unbound by convention, hierarchy, or politeness. Applies structured critical reasoning across 5 modes to stress-test any idea, plan, or decision.
Step 1 - Pick a category (4 options):
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Question assumptions | Probe what's being taken for granted |
| Build counter-arguments | Argue the strongest opposing position |
| Find weaknesses | Anticipate how this fails or gets exploited |
| You choose | Auto-recommend based on context |
Step 2 - Refine mode (only when the category maps to 2 modes):
| Mode | Method | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Expose My Assumptions | Socratic questioning | Probing questions grouped by theme |
| Argue the Other Side | Hegelian dialectic + steel manning | Counter-argument and synthesis proposal |
| Find the Failure Modes | Pre-mortem + second-order thinking | Ranked failure narratives with mitigations |
| Attack This | Red teaming | Adversary profile, attack vectors, defenses |
| Test the Evidence | Falsificationism + evidence weighting | Claims audited with falsification criteria |
Load detailed guidance based on context:
| Topic | Reference | Load When |
|---|---|---|
| Mode Selection | references/mode-selection-guide.md | Choosing which reasoning mode to apply, combining modes |
| Socratic Questioning | references/socratic-questioning.md | Exposing assumptions, probing questions, assumption inventory |
| Dialectic Synthesis | references/dialectic-synthesis.md | Building counter-arguments, steelmanning, thesis-antithesis-synthesis |
| Pre-Mortem Analysis | references/pre-mortem-analysis.md | Failure narratives, early warning signs, mitigation planning |
| Red Team (Adversarial) | references/red-team-adversarial.md | Attack vectors, adversary profiling, defense design |
| Evidence Audit | references/evidence-audit.md | Falsification criteria, evidence grading, competing explanations |
Each mode produces a structured deliverable:
| Mode | Deliverable |
|---|---|
| Expose My Assumptions | Assumption inventory + probing questions by theme + suggested experiments |
| Argue the Other Side | Steelmanned thesis + antithesis argued + synthesis proposed + confidence rating |
| Find the Failure Modes | Ranked failure narratives + early warning signs + mitigations + inversion check |
| Attack This | Adversary profiles + ranked attack vectors + perverse incentives + defenses |
| Test the Evidence | Claims extracted + falsification criteria + evidence grades + competing explanations |
After any mode, the final output must include:
Socratic method, Hegelian dialectic, steel manning, pre-mortem analysis, red teaming, falsificationism, abductive reasoning, second-order thinking, cognitive biases, inversion technique