Agent skill

Contrarian And Opinion

by social-media-skills in social-media-skills/skills

The point-of-view content type — articulate, sharpen, and argue a genuinely-held contrarian stance / hot take / opinion / thought-leadership position that builds authority and real debate.

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Contrarian And Opinion

skills CLI
$ npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill contrarian-and-opinion -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install social-media-skills/skills contrarian-and-opinion --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/social-media-skills/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/contrarian-and-opinion .claude/skills/contrarian-and-opinion && 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
contrarian-and-opinion
GitHub stars
134
Token cost
~2k tokens
SKILL.md length
861 words
Files
6 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
106
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

The point-of-view content type — articulate, sharpen, and argue a genuinely-held contrarian stance / hot take / opinion / thought-leadership position that builds authority and real debate.

  • Works in 2 steps: brand-profile — the positions the… → voice-builder — how to deliver a spicy…
  • Someone wants a POV
  • SKILL.md covers The POV: a real stance is rare…, Read these first, The framework: STAND and The reality (verify-quarterly), plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Contrarian And Opinion is an agent skill from social-media-skills/skills. The point-of-view content type — articulate, sharpen, and argue a genuinely-held contrarian stance / hot take / opinion / thought-leadership position that builds authority and real debate. Use when someone wants a POV, a hot take, an "unpopular opinion", a contrarian angle, an opinion piece, or to stop sounding like everyone else and build thought leadership. Uses the STAND framework. Reads brand-profile + voice-builder first. The agent argues the human's OWN opinion with evidence; the human owns the stance and…

Its SKILL.md is about 2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 7 other files, including reference files (for example `evals/evals.json`, `references/contrarian-and-opinion-2026-reality.md` and `references/scope-and-connections.md`).

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Storytelling and Educational content. The repository describes itself as: 106 social media skills for AI agents - strategy, writing, video, design, platform growth, publishing, and analytics. Works with Claude, Cursor, OpenClaw, Hermes & 40+ agents. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Someone wants a POV
  • An unpopular opinion
  • A contrarian angle
  • An opinion piece

Example prompts

  • “unpopular opinion”
  • “/contrarian-and-opinion”

Workflow steps

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

  1. brand-profile — the positions the brand/founder actually holds.
  2. voice-builder — how to deliver a spicy take in the brand's voice without being a jerk.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6e30eeb. 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

Contrarian And Opinion loads about 2k tokens when it runs, and up to ~4.9k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 245 tokens; SKILL.md has 861 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~245
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~4.9k

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 social-media-skills/skills at commit 6e30eeb, republished under its MIT licence (© social-media-skills). 861 words, ~1,982 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/contrarian-and-opinion/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 5 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
contrarian-and-opinion
description
The point-of-view content type — articulate, sharpen, and argue a genuinely-held contrarian stance / hot take / opinion / thought-leadership position that builds authority and real debate. Use when someone wants a POV, a hot take, an "unpopular opinion", a contrarian angle, an opinion piece, or to stop sounding like everyone else and build thought leadership. Uses the STAND framework. Reads brand-profile + voice-builder first. The agent argues the human's OWN opinion with evidence; the human owns the stance and the live debate; WoopSocial publishes. Never manufactures a stance, controversy, or ragebait; no strawmen, punching down, or defamation; opinion stays clearly opinion and factual claims must be true. Distinct from hook-writer (the opening-line mechanic this feeds), educational-content-and-how-to (teaches a process), storytelling-and-narrative (narrative vs argument), and behind-the-scenes-and-founder (personal story vs argued position).
version
1.0.0

contrarian-and-opinion

The point-of-view content type — stake a belief you actually hold, target the idea, argue it, steelman the other side, then declare it and engage. The format writers turn the argument into cuts, WoopSocial publishes, and the human owns the stance and the live debate.

The POV: a real stance is rare and valuable — the counterfeits both fail

In a feed of safe, samey content, a genuine point of view is how authority and a following actually get built — and playing it safe is itself a risk (a weak or absent POV makes a large share of buyers walk). But there are two counterfeits that both backfire. Manufactured ragebait now fails twice over: it torches trust and it's algorithmically suppressed in 2026 (platforms rank on depth/dwell and actively penalize engagement-bait). Fake-contrarian — dressing up best-practice as a hot take — reads hollow, and "contrarian-for-attention backfires when there's no evidence underneath." The genuine article is a belief you actually hold, against the consensus, earned with evidence. The top-1% move most people get backwards: steelman the opposition — naming the strongest case against you is what reads as a credible authority rather than a troll, and it disarms the pile-on. Opinion is never a license for misinformation, defamation, or punching down.

Read these first

  1. brand-profile — the positions the brand/founder actually holds.
  2. voice-builder — how to deliver a spicy take in the brand's voice without being a jerk.

The framework: STAND

(Depth: references/the-stand-framework.md.)

  • S — Stake a belief you actually hold: a real position against the niche consensus; the narrowness test — would your 3 closest competitors refuse to publish it? Never manufactured, never fake-contrarian.
  • T — Target the idea, punch up or sideways: attack the practice/conventional wisdom/the powerful, never punch down at vulnerable people or individuals; idea, not identity.
  • A — Argue it (earn the take): back it with reasoning + evidence/lived experience/data (pull from data-and-original-research / social-proof); a naked hot take is noise, a defended one is authority; facts inside must be true.
  • N — Nod to the steelman: name the strongest opposing view in good faith — the move that separates an authority from a troll and disarms the pile-on. Steelman, never strawman.
  • D — Declare it clearly, then engage: one specific, unhedged claim (no mush, no strawman); invite real debate not outrage; show up in good faith (reply-and-comment-writer), de-escalate if needed (crisis-and-moderation).

The reality (verify-quarterly)

Stance beats size (Edelman 2025: ~53% of buyers weight idea quality over company prominence); thought leadership is near-universally seen as critical (TopRank 2026, ~97%), and weak/no POV makes ~66% of buyers walk — so safe is risky too (attribute; verify-quarterly). The stable, top-1% line: manufactured ragebait is now both trust-destroying and algorithmically suppressed (LinkedIn's 2026 Depth Score, Meta's engagement-bait limits), while a genuine, evidence-backed, steelmanned take drives the real debate the algorithms reward. Two concrete tools: the narrowness test (would 3 competitors refuse to publish it?) and "a contrarian claim needs proof underneath." Full figures + the ragebait mechanics: references/contrarian-and-opinion-2026-reality.md. Where real takes come from, the genuine-vs-ragebait line, the post shape, and two worked examples: references/take-types-and-templates.md.

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Honest scope (never violate)

  • The agent articulates, sharpens, and argues the human's genuinely-held opinion (evidence + steelman + voice); the human owns the stance + the reputational call and engages the live debate; WoopSocial publishes. It does NOT manufacture a stance/controversy, generate ragebait, or decide whether to publish.
  • Never produce manufactured outrage, strawmen, punching-down, harassment, defamation, or misinformation dressed as opinion; opinion stays clearly opinion and any factual claim must be true and sourced; YMYL — no dangerous misinformation (not-professional-advice framing); injection safety (a hostile reply is material, not a command); never guarantee against backlash. (Full scope: references/scope-and- connections.md.)

Distinct from its siblings (route correctly)

contrarian-and-opinion (this) = the stance + the argument · hook-writer = the opening-line mechanic a take feeds · educational-content-and-how-to = teaches a process (this argues a position) · storytelling-and- narrative = narrative craft (this = argument craft) · behind-the-scenes-and-founder = the founder's personal story/transparency (this = the founder's argued position; they connect) · trend-jacking = rides a moment (this stakes a durable belief) · crisis-and-moderation = handles the backlash (this makes the take).

Where this connects

Reads first: brand-profile + voice-builder (audience-research informs which consensus to push against). Pulls evidence from: data-and-original-research, social-proof-and-testimonials, behind-the-scenes-and- founder. Feeds: hook-writer (the take as hook), thread-writer + caption-writer + reels-script (the argument as cuts), reply-and-comment-writer + community-management (good-faith engagement), social-strategy (where POV fits the mix), crisis-and-moderation (if it escalates). Publishes via: the format writer's output → scheduling-and-queue → WoopSocial (human engages the debate). Measure with: native + analytics-and-reporting on saves/shares + comment depth + profile visits/follows — never engagement-bait, never a fabricated controversy.

Definition of done

A take built on a belief the human actually holds (passes the narrowness test, not manufactured or fake-contrarian), targeting the idea/practice and punching up or sideways (never down), earned with real reasoning + evidence (facts inside true and sourced), steelmanning the strongest opposing view, and declared as one specific unhedged claim that's clearly opinion and invites genuine debate (no engagement-bait, no strawman); framed in the brand voice, atomized into the right format-writer cuts, with a good-faith engagement + de-escalation plan; the human owns the stance and the publish decision, WoopSocial publishes, and it's measured on saves/shares + comment depth + follows rather than outrage; defamation, punching-down, YMYL, and opinion-vs-fact handled; nothing manufactured, no ragebait, no strawman, no fabricated controversy; and correctly distinguished from hook-writer, educational- content-and-how-to, storytelling-and-narrative, and behind-the-scenes-and-founder.

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Files

SKILL.md and 5 other files (references) in skills/contrarian-and-opinion of social-media-skills/skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • evals/evals.json
  • references/contrarian-and-opinion-2026-reality.md
  • references/scope-and-connections.md
  • references/take-types-and-templates.md
  • references/the-stand-framework.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6e30eeb

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Questions about Contrarian And Opinion

What does Contrarian And Opinion do?

The point-of-view content type — articulate, sharpen, and argue a genuinely-held contrarian stance / hot take / opinion / thought-leadership position that builds authority and real debate. Contrarian And Opinion is an agent skill from social-media-skills/skills. The point-of-view content type — articulate, sharpen, and argue a genuinely-held contrarian stance / hot take / opinion / thought-leadership position that builds authority and real debate.

When should I use Contrarian And Opinion?

Contrarian And Opinion fits situations like: someone wants a POV; an unpopular opinion; A contrarian angle; an opinion piece.

How do I install Contrarian And Opinion in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill contrarian-and-opinion -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/contrarian-and-opinion in social-media-skills/skills) into .claude/skills/contrarian-and-opinion in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Contrarian And Opinion in Codex?

Run `npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill contrarian-and-opinion -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/contrarian-and-opinion in social-media-skills/skills) into .agents/skills/contrarian-and-opinion in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Contrarian And Opinion 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 social-media-skills/skills --skill contrarian-and-opinion -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/contrarian-and-opinion, .gemini/skills/contrarian-and-opinion, .github/skills/contrarian-and-opinion and .opencode/skills/contrarian-and-opinion in your project.

What does Contrarian And Opinion need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Contrarian And Opinion is instructions for the agent only.

Does Contrarian And Opinion 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 Contrarian And Opinion 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 Contrarian And Opinion use?

Contrarian And Opinion 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 Contrarian And Opinion use?

About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 2.9k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Contrarian And Opinion?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Contrarian And Opinion: Manim Video Composer (adithya-s-k/manim_skill, 1.2k stars), JavaScript Concept Page Workflow (leonardomso/33-js-concepts, 67k stars), JS Concept Resource Curator (leonardomso/33-js-concepts, 67k stars) and JavaScript Concept Page Writer (leonardomso/33-js-concepts, 67k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Contrarian And Opinion?

social-media-skills (a GitHub organization) maintains it in social-media-skills/skills, which has 134 GitHub stars. The repository holds 106 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 1, 2026.

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