What do I need to use Cross-Examine Me?

The decision or claim; The context; Your reasoning; How hard to push.

Is Cross-Examine Me free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Cross-Examine Me

Q: How do I know the Cross-Examine Me output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own 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.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-08-06 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-thinking

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.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

🗣 Say this to your agent

“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.”

What to give it

▸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

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓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

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**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.

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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💬 Discussion

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