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ariaxhan (@ariaxhan) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Debate Decisions by ariaxhan — Agent Skill

Name: Debate Decisions
Author: ariaxhan

Debate Decisions

A compact decision protocol for non-trivial choices, reviews, governance calls, and live disagreement. Use implicitly at decision points, even when nobody says "debate", whenever a choice is high-impact, hard to reverse, policy-bearing, or has multiple plausible paths that evidence alone cannot settle. Skip for trivial, cheap-to-reverse, or deterministically decidable choices.

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Debate Protocols

Use debate as a small decision aid, not a format museum. If grep, tests, logs, source files, or official records can decide the question, use them as the judge and skip debate.

Core Rules

State the resolution in one sentence.
Assign sides before arguing. For peer agents, the proposer argues against their own proposal and the reviewer argues for it; otherwise use a coin flip or a stable hash of the resolution.
Treat assigned side as a role, not belief. Concession is allowed and counts as progress.
The proposer must argue against their own proposal at least once.
End with a decision record: winner, strongest argument, unresolved risk, evidence that would flip the result, and preserved dissent.
Make every dissent testable. An objection must name the evidence that would prove or disprove it, or be labeled speculation.
Cap the loop: one rebuttal cycle by default. If positions do not change after two exchanges, stop and record the unresolved dissent.

Compressed Rounds

Use compressed rounds by default inside normal work:

Resolution:
Pro constructive:
Con constructive:
Crossfire:
Rebuttals:
Weighing:
Decision:
Preserved dissent:

For multi-agent HCOM work, send each role its assignment and require a short constructive plus one attack on its own side.

Read references/termination-and-concession.md when a debate risks looping, when agents disagree after one rebuttal cycle, or when dissent starts becoming performative.

Output Shape

Decision:
Why:
Best opposing argument:
What would flip it:
Next action:

---name: debate-decisionsdescription: A compact decision protocol for non-trivial choices, reviews, governance calls, and live disagreement. Use implicitly at decision points, even when nobody says "debate", whenever a choice is high-impact, hard to reverse, policy-bearing, or has multiple plausible paths that evidence alone cannot settle. Skip for trivial, cheap-to-reverse, or deterministically decidable choices.---# Debate ProtocolsUse debate as a small decision aid, not a format museum. If grep, tests, logs, source files, or official records can decide the question, use them as the judge and skip debate.## Core Rules1. State the resolution in one sentence.2. Assign sides before arguing. For peer agents, the proposer argues against their own proposal and the reviewer argues for it; otherwise use a coin flip or a stable hash of the resolution.3. Treat assigned side as a role, not belief. Concession is allowed and counts as progress.4. The proposer must argue against their own proposal at least once.5. End with a decision record: winner, strongest argument, unresolved risk, evidence that would flip the result, and preserved dissent.6. Make every dissent testable. An objection must name the evidence that would prove or disprove it, or be labeled speculation.7. Cap the loop: one rebuttal cycle by default. If positions do not change after two exchanges, stop and record the unresolved dissent.## Compressed RoundsUse compressed rounds by default inside normal work:```textResolution:Pro constructive:Con constructive:Crossfire:Rebuttals:Weighing:Decision:Preserved dissent:```For multi-agent HCOM work, send each role its assignment and require a short constructive plus one attack on its own side.Read `references/termination-and-concession.md` when a debate risks looping, when agents disagree after one rebuttal cycle, or when dissent starts becoming performative.## Output Shape```textDecision:Why:Best opposing argument:What would flip it:Next action:```

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