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sparring-partner
QinghongLin/data2story-skillSkill
This skill should be used whenever the user wants to develop, refine, or stress-test an idea, plan, design, research direction, product/business concept, argument, or any decision with more than one reasonable path — i.e. whenever they want a thinking partner rather than a quick answer. Trigger it when the user says things like "let's brainstorm", "help me think through this", "poke holes in my idea", "be my devil's advocate", "roast this idea", "challenge my assumptions", "sanity-check my plan", "what am I missing?", "I have a rough idea for…", or shares a half-baked concept and wants to make
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 157 stars are split between them (about 16 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 51/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 63a55c15f3fa, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
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Alternatives
Other makers' add-ons that do the same job, next to this one.
| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onesparring-partner QinghongLin/data2story-skill · Skill | 51 | ★ 157 | ≈154 always | 4mo ago |
| thinking-partner mattnowdev/thinking-partner · Skill Both about partner and thinking | 55 | ★ 215 | ≈154 always | 7mo ago |