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Phone a Friend

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Phone a Friend

Spawn an Opus sub-agent in extended-thinking max-effort mode to debate, critique, and pressure-test the primary agent's current thinking through an unbounded multi-turn dialogue, terminating when the agents either reach genuine consensus or cleanly agree to disagree. Supports escalating clarifying questions to the human user mid-debate, and supports the user sending the debate back for another round (jury-room rule). Use when the user invokes "phone a friend", asks for a "second opinion", "sanity check", "debate this with another model", or otherwise signals they want rigorous adversarial review of an approach, plan, design, diagnosis, or decision before proceeding.

Install with

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Gemini CLI

Supported by the Atlas install prompt. Skill-specific requirements vary.

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About this skill

Spawn an Opus sub-agent in extended-thinking max-effort mode to debate, critique, and pressure-test the primary agent's current thinking through an unbounded multi-turn dialogue, terminating when the agents either reach genuine consensus or cleanly agree to disagree. Supports escalating clarifying questions to the human user mid-debate, and supports the user sending the debate back for another round (jury-room rule). Use when the user invokes "phone a friend", asks for a "second opinion", "sanity check", "debate this with another model", or otherwise signals they want rigorous adversarial review of an approach, plan, design, diagnosis, or decision before proceeding.

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phone-a-friend

Original description

Spawn an Opus sub-agent in extended-thinking max-effort mode to debate, critique, and pressure-test the primary agent's current thinking through an unbounded multi-turn dialogue, terminating when the agents either reach genuine consensus or cleanly agree to disagree. Supports escalating clarifying questions to the human user mid-debate, and supports the user sending the debate back for another round (jury-room rule). Use when the user invokes "phone a friend", asks for a "second opinion", "sanity check", "debate this with another model", or otherwise signals they want rigorous adversarial review of an approach, plan, design, diagnosis, or decision before proceeding.

About this listing

Category: General
Reported license: Not specified
Listing language (estimated): English
Review status: Not individually reviewed
Agent compatibility: Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.

About

Spawn an Opus sub-agent in extended-thinking max-effort mode to debate, critique, and pressure-test the primary agent's current thinking through an unbounded multi-turn dialogue, terminating when the agents either reach genuine consensus or cleanly agree to disagree. Supports escalating clarifying questions to the human user mid-debate, and supports the user sending the debate back for another round (jury-room rule). Use when the user invokes "phone a friend", asks for a "second opinion", "sanity check", "debate this with another model", or otherwise signals they want rigorous adversarial review of an approach, plan, design, diagnosis, or decision before proceeding.

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Install with

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Gemini CLI

Supported by the Atlas install prompt. Skill-specific requirements vary.

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