the-fool
Audited by Runlayer on Feb 21, 2026
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Tool: SKILL.md Description: --- name: the-fool description: 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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Tool: references/dialectic-synthesis.md Description: # Dialectic Synthesis Hegelian dialectic with steel manning for constructing the strongest possible counter-argument and driving toward synthesis. ## Core Principle The dialectic is not about winning.
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Tool: references/evidence-audit.md [1/2] Description: # Evidence Audit Falsificationism and evidence quality assessment for auditing whether claims are actually supported by evidence.
Tool: references/evidence-audit.md [2/2] Description: quo bias** | Preferring current state despite evidence for change | "It's always been this way" | ## Competing Explanations (Abductive Reasoning) For every conclusion, ask: "What else could explain this evidence?" ### Method 1.
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Tool: references/mode-selection-guide.md Description: # Mode Selection Guide How to recommend the right reasoning mode when the user selects "You choose" or when auto-recommending.
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Tool: references/pre-mortem-analysis.md [1/2] Description: # Pre-Mortem Analysis Pre-mortem methodology with second-order thinking for identifying how plans fail before they fail.
Tool: references/pre-mortem-analysis.md [2/2] Description: the rollback plan | Rollback hasn't been designed | | Estimates keep growing | Hidden complexity being discovered incrementally | | Key meetings keep getting rescheduled | Stakeholder alignment is weaker than assumed | | "It works locally" | Environment parity is worse than assumed | | Testing phase compressed | Quality will be sacrificed | | No metrics defined for success | No one will know if this worked | ## Output Template ```markdow
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Tool: references/red-team-adversarial.md [1/2] Description: # Red Team Adversarial Adversarial thinking and red teaming for finding weaknesses before adversaries do. ## Core Principle Red teaming asks: **"If someone wanted to break, exploit, or game this, how would they do it?"** The Fool adopts the mindset of an adversary — not to cause harm, but to find vulnerabilities before real adversaries do.
Tool: references/red-team-adversarial.md [2/2]
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Tool: references/socratic-questioning.md Description: # Socratic Questioning Structured question frameworks for exposing assumptions and deepening understanding. ## Core Principle Socratic questioning does not argue.