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/devilsadvocate

Deliberately takes the other side to expose weak assumptions and make your decisions sturdier.

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/devilsadvocate [your decision or view]
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/debateNewThinking & DecisionsA prefix that has Claude argue both sides of a decision you are facing, so you notice what you might be missing.
/debate [your decision]

Example: /debate Should I leave my 9-5 job to work full time on my side business
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/falsifyNewThinking & DecisionsMakes Claude try hard to prove its own answer wrong before showing it, cutting down errors and blind spots.
/falsify [your question]
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/firstprinciplesNewThinking & DecisionsReduces a complex problem to its basic truths, then builds the solution back up from there.
/firstprinciples [your problem]
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/inversionNewThinking & DecisionsWorks the problem in reverse: identifies what would make failure certain, then steers away from those actions.
/inversion [your problem]
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/OODANewThinking & DecisionsTakes the problem through the Observe, Orient, Decide, Act cycle, a quick loop for making decisions under pressure.
/OODA [your problem]
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