Agent skill

Cross Examine Me

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Stress-test a decision or claim through a sharp, fair Q&A — the questions a good lawyer or skeptical friend would ask before you commit.

MITAuto-check passedTesting & QA

Install Cross Examine Me

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill cross-examine-me -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills cross-examine-me --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cross-examine-me .claude/skills/cross-examine-me && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
cross-examine-me
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~923 tokens
SKILL.md length
468 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Stress-test a decision or claim through a sharp, fair Q&A — the questions a good lawyer or skeptical friend would ask before you commit.

  • Works in 5 steps: Start by clarifying. Open questions… → Escalate to challenge. Move to the… → Build to the killer question. Sequence… → …
  • Asked to cross-examine me
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: Clarify, Challenge,… and Output Format, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Cross Examine Me is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Stress-test a decision or claim through a sharp, fair Q&A — the questions a good lawyer or skeptical friend would ask before you commit. Use when asked to cross-examine me, ask me hard questions about this, interrogate my plan, or make me defend this. Produces a sequenced line of probing questions (from clarifying to challenging to the killer question), space to answer, and a debrief on where your answers were strong, evasive, or exposed a gap — so weaknesses surface in private before they surface in public.

Its SKILL.md is about 920 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Testing & QA, covering Load testing. The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to cross-examine me
  • Ask me hard questions about this
  • Interrogate my plan
  • Make me defend this

Example prompts

  • “/cross-examine-me”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Start by clarifying. Open questions establish what's actually being claimed and pin down vagueness — you can't examine mush.
  2. Escalate to challenge. Move to the questions that test the reasoning, the evidence, and the assumptions.
  3. Build to the killer question. Sequence toward the single hardest question — the one whose honest answer most threatens the position.
  4. Make them answer. Don't answer for them where interaction is possible; the value is in them articulating (or failing to).
  5. Debrief honestly. Say where the answers were strong, where they dodged, and where a gap opened — and flag the question to prepare a real…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Cross Examine Me loads about 923 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 133 tokens; SKILL.md has 468 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~133
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~923

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 468 words, ~923 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/cross-examine-me/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
cross-examine-me
description
Stress-test a decision or claim through a sharp, fair Q&A — the questions a good lawyer or skeptical friend would ask before you commit. Use when asked to cross-examine me, ask me hard questions about this, interrogate my plan, or make me defend this. Produces a sequenced line of probing questions (from clarifying to challenging to the killer question), space to answer, and a debrief on where your answers were strong, evasive, or exposed a gap — so weaknesses surface in private before they surface in public.

Cross-Examine Me

The fastest way to find the weak point in a decision is to be questioned about it by someone sharp. This runs that cross-examination: a sequence of questions that starts by clarifying, moves to challenging, and builds to the one question you least want to answer — then debriefs where you held up and where you cracked. Better to face it here than in the meeting, the pitch, or the argument.

What This Skill Produces

  • A question sequence — clarifying questions first, then challenging ones, building to the killer question
  • Room to answer — it asks, you respond (interactively, or it models likely weak answers)
  • The debrief — where your answers were solid, where they were evasive or hand-wavy, and where a real gap got exposed
  • The question to prepare for — the one you struggled with, which others will ask too

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The decision or claim — what's being examined
  • The context — where you'll have to defend it (a meeting, an investor, yourself)
  • Your reasoning — your current case for it
  • How hard to push — gentle rehearsal or hostile grilling

Framework: Clarify, Challenge, Corner

  1. Start by clarifying. Open questions establish what's actually being claimed and pin down vagueness — you can't examine mush.
  2. Escalate to challenge. Move to the questions that test the reasoning, the evidence, and the assumptions.
  3. Build to the killer question. Sequence toward the single hardest question — the one whose honest answer most threatens the position.
  4. Make them answer. Don't answer for them where interaction is possible; the value is in them articulating (or failing to).
  5. Debrief honestly. Say where the answers were strong, where they dodged, and where a gap opened — and flag the question to prepare a real answer for.
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Output Format

Cross-examining: [the decision/claim] · for [context]

Clarifying

  1. [question] 2. [question]

Challenging 3. [question] 4. [question]

The killer question 5. [the one you least want to answer]

(Answer each — or I'll model the likely weak answers.)

Debrief: strong where [x] · evasive/weak where [y] · gap exposed at [z]. Prepare a real answer for: [the question that got you].

Quality Checks

  • Questions are sequenced clarify → challenge → killer
  • They genuinely probe the reasoning and assumptions
  • The person is made to answer (not answered for, where interactive)
  • The debrief honestly flags evasions and gaps
  • It identifies the hardest question to prepare for

Anti-Patterns

  • Softball questions that are easy to answer.
  • Jumping to the killer question with no build-up.
  • Answering for the person and skipping the value.
  • A debrief that's all reassurance and no exposed gaps.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Cross-examine me on my decision to change careers."
  • "Ask me hard questions about this business plan."
  • "Interrogate my argument before I present it."
  • "Make me defend this — what would a skeptic ask?"
  • "Grill me on whether this is a good idea."

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/cross-examine-me of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Cross Examine Me

What does Cross Examine Me do?

Stress-test a decision or claim through a sharp, fair Q&A — the questions a good lawyer or skeptical friend would ask before you commit. Cross Examine Me is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Stress-test a decision or claim through a sharp, fair Q&A — the questions a good lawyer or skeptical friend would ask before you commit.

When should I use Cross Examine Me?

Cross Examine Me fits situations like: asked to cross-examine me; ask me hard questions about this; interrogate my plan; make me defend this.

How do I install Cross Examine Me in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill cross-examine-me -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/cross-examine-me in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/cross-examine-me in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Cross Examine Me in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill cross-examine-me -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/cross-examine-me in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/cross-examine-me in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Cross Examine Me in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill cross-examine-me -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/cross-examine-me, .gemini/skills/cross-examine-me, .github/skills/cross-examine-me and .opencode/skills/cross-examine-me in your project.

What does Cross Examine Me need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Cross Examine Me is instructions for the agent only.

Does Cross Examine Me access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Cross Examine Me safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Cross Examine Me use?

Cross Examine Me is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Cross Examine Me use?

About 923 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Cross Examine Me?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Cross Examine Me: Microbenchmarking (dotnet/skills, 5.6k stars), Omnigent Load Test Runner (omnigent-ai/omnigent, 11k stars), Control UI E2E (openclaw/openclaw, 392k stars) and Writing Livekit Scenarios (livekit-examples/agent-starter-python, 264 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Cross Examine Me?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.