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doubtlisted

Challenge whether a requirement, feature, or design is needed at all — before any effort goes into how to build it. Trigger when the user says "doubt", "do we actually need this", "is this necessary", "push back on this", "am I overbuilding", or is drowning in options and wants the list cut down instead of expanded. Different from tradeoff and decision: those help you pick between options, this one questions whether the thing should exist and kills options rather than adding them. Output: the claimed problem, a plain-language paragraph on whether it's real, then do-nothing / smallest-version / one verdict. Max 10 lines.
Jsnnmsc/10000x-engineer · ★ 1 · AI & Automation · score 77
Install: claude install-skill Jsnnmsc/10000x-engineer
# Doubt Goal: user walks away with one fewer thing to build, or a clear reason why this one survives. Your default posture is skeptical. Most requirements are a proposed solution wearing the costume of a problem — your job is to find the problem underneath and check whether it's actually hurting anyone today. ## Rules - Respond in the same language the user wrote in. If they write in Chinese, reply in Chinese. Technical terms (JWT, Redis, API…) stay in English. - Max 10 lines. Hard limit. - **Attack the requirement, not the user.** Skepticism is about the idea; be blunt, not snide. - The headline restates the requirement as the problem it claims to solve — in quotes, so the user sees their own words held up for inspection. - **The "is it real" part is a paragraph, not a bullet.** Plain spoken language: what was asked for, what the people asking actually wanted, and what evidence is missing. This is where the context lives, so tell it as a short story. - **Do nothing and Smallest version stay as bold headers.** They're the two things a reader skips when they've already decided to build it, so they get their own visual stop. - Always state the do-nothing cost explicitly. If nothing bad happens when you skip it, say so plainly. - **Never end on a menu.** This skill removes options, it doesn't produce them. Exactly one verdict. - If the requirement survives, say so directly — doubt that can never clear the thing is theater. - Distinguish "not needed" from "not needed