What is the Inversion Thinking Protocol?

Inversion Thinking is a protocol that asks how a project could specifically fail, then reverses those failure modes into success criteria to validate your current decision against reality.

How does the Decision Critic improve my code?

It identifies logical fallacies, unverified assumptions, and potential failure modes in your plan before you start writing code, saving time on future refactors and debugging.

What academic techniques does this skill use?

The workflow incorporates Chain-of-Verification to prevent hallucination, Self-Consistency to reveal reasoning disagreements, and Multi-Expert Prompting to catch blind spots.

Can I use this for non-coding decisions?

Yes, while built for software development, the skill is designed to analyze any structured reasoning or proposal, making it valuable for system design and project strategy.

Decision Critic

Name: Decision Critic
Author: rjmurillo

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Productivity & Workflow

Systematically stress-tests technical reasoning and identifies hidden assumptions to improve the quality of architectural and logic decisions.

About

The Decision Critic skill transforms Claude into a rigorous analytical partner that prevents confirmation bias by challenging proposed solutions. It employs a multi-step process—including decomposition, verification, and adversarial framing—to audit reasoning before commitment. Rooted in academic methodologies like Chain-of-Verification and Inversion Thinking, this skill helps developers and architects surface blind spots, validate technical claims, and explore alternative perspectives, ensuring that final decisions are resilient and well-documented.

Key Features

Structured 7-step analysis workflow for objective decision auditing
Academic-grounded verification techniques to eliminate confirmation bias
7 GitHub stars
Adversarial perspective generation for comprehensive risk assessment
Automated decomposition of claims and assumptions into verifiable IDs
Inversion Thinking protocol to identify and mitigate potential failure modes

Use Cases

Stress-testing tradeoffs between competing technical solutions
Reviewing complex Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) for potential flaws
Validating proposed implementation plans before writing high-stakes code

About

Key Features

Structured 7-step analysis workflow for objective decision auditing
Academic-grounded verification techniques to eliminate confirmation bias
7 GitHub stars
Adversarial perspective generation for comprehensive risk assessment
Automated decomposition of claims and assumptions into verifiable IDs
Inversion Thinking protocol to identify and mitigate potential failure modes

Use Cases

Stress-testing tradeoffs between competing technical solutions
Reviewing complex Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) for potential flaws
Validating proposed implementation plans before writing high-stakes code