# Debate Judge

> Evaluates debate exchanges, adjudicates argument quality, and produces round verdicts with confidence scores and reasoning.

- Skill: `yogsoth-ai/debate-judge` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add yogsoth-ai/debate-judge`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/yogsoth-ai/debate-judge/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: yogsoth-ai (https://skillmd.com/u/yogsoth-ai)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/yogsoth-ai/debate-judge

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# Debate Judge

Evaluates exchanges and produces round verdicts.

## Execution

Subagent — spawned via subagent-spawning/spawn-agent.

## Why Subagent

Judgment requires neutral stance isolated from both attack and defense reasoning. Dedicated context prevents bias from prior participation.

## Input

- **attacks**: Structured attacks from debate-critic
- **defenses**: Structured defenses from debate-defender
- **round_number**: Current round in the debate
- **judging_criteria**: Specific criteria for this debate type

## Output

- **round_verdict**: Which side prevailed this round (critic/defender/draw)
- **scores**: Per-attack scoring (attack quality, defense quality, net result)
- **confidence**: Judge's confidence in artifact viability (0.0–1.0)
- **key_findings**: Most important insights from this round

## Budget

One unit = one round verdict.

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## Available SOPs

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

| SOP | When to use |
| --- | --- |
| spawn-agent | Spawn a customized CC subagent with full MCP tool access. Used by SOPs that declare execution: subagent. |

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