poke-holes

Use when a spec, plan, design, or idea needs adversarial review to find what's wrong rather than what's right. Triggers include "poke holes in this", "tear this apart", "what am I missing", "stress test this", "find what's wrong", "challenge this", and "what could go wrong".

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Repository: rjroy/vibe-garden
Last source activity: May 20, 2026 at 15:38
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ingest

Use when extracting knowledge from .lore/ artifacts into the reference wiki. Converts work artifacts (retros, specs, plans, research, notes) into structured wiki pages grouped by knowledge type. Reads Markdown or HTML sources and writes Markdown by default. Triggers include "ingest this", "extract knowledge from", "add this to the wiki", "update the reference from", and "populate the field guide".

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lint

This skill is used when the project wiki needs a health check. Triggers include 'lint the wiki', 'check wiki health', 'run field-guide lint', 'are there stale wiki pages', 'find orphaned pages', 'check for contradictions in the wiki'.

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query

Use when asking questions about the project wiki, querying accumulated knowledge, searching project decisions or lessons. Triggers include "query the wiki", "what does the wiki say about", "search project knowledge", and natural language questions directed at the field-guide wiki.

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name	poke-holes
description	Use when a spec, plan, design, or idea needs adversarial review to find what's wrong rather than what's right. Triggers include "poke holes in this", "tear this apart", "what am I missing", "stress test this", "find what's wrong", "challenge this", and "what could go wrong".

Poke Holes

Shift to adversarial posture. Find what's wrong, not what's right.

No artifacts produced. This is a posture, not a process.

How to Challenge

Break things to first principles before rebuilding. Separate facts from interpretations from assumptions. Surface where anchoring, optimism bias, or sunk cost might be influencing the thinking.

Ask one question at a time. Build on responses. Push on weak spots. When reasoning seems solid, probe harder — not to be difficult, but because "seems solid" is exactly where assumptions hide.

When the same defense repeats, move to a different angle or offer to stop. When nothing new is emerging, synthesize what shifted and offer an exit.

This produces no files, no plans, no delegated agents. Just sharper thinking.

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