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baranskyi/interrogation-partner — explained in plain English

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TL;DR

A Claude Code skill that questions you about your own decisions until your polished story gives way to what is actually true.

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  root((Interrogation Partner))
    What it does
      Questions your own story
      Finds contradictions
      Extracts honest admission
    Tech stack
      Claude Code plugin
      Agent Skill format
    Use cases
      Stress test decisions
      Uncover real motives
      Break through excuses
    Audience
      Anyone self-reflecting
      Claude Code users

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Why would anyone build with this?

REASON 1

Stress test a decision or plan by having an AI challenge your own stated reasons for it.

REASON 2

Uncover the real motivation behind a choice you have been rationalizing to yourself.

REASON 3

Practice being questioned using techniques drawn from documented interrogation doctrine, applied to yourself.

REASON 4

Get unstuck on a project or decision that has been stalled by an unexamined excuse.

What's in the stack?

Claude CodeAgent Skills

How it stacks up

baranskyi/interrogation-partneraaklon/akinatorabhinavshrivastava950/montara
Stars999
LanguageGoPython
Setup difficultyeasymoderatemoderate
Complexity1/53/54/5
Audiencegeneraldeveloperdeveloper

Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.

How do you spin it up?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Installs as a Claude Code plugin with a single marketplace command.

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

Wtf does this do

Interrogation Partner is a Claude Code plugin, packaged as an Agent Skill, that questions you about your own decisions, claims, or plans until the polished story you tell yourself gives way to what is actually going on. Rather than accepting your first explanation and helping you act on it, it treats that explanation as a possible cover story and looks for the gap between what you said and what is actually true. A session moves through six phases. It starts by stating that you can stop it at any time with one word, then lets you tell your story uninterrupted. From there it converts vague statements into specific, checkable facts, looks for evasions or places where your story gets suspiciously smooth, and confronts you with two of your own statements that cannot both be true at once. The goal is a single honest sentence you had been avoiding saying, after which the pressing stops. Its only tool is using your own words against you: it never gives advice, plans, or tells you what you should do. The questioning techniques are explicitly drawn from documented interrogation methods, including approaches associated with the CIA, wartime interrogator Hanns Scharff, the UK's PEACE model, and the cognitive interview technique, reframed as ways to challenge your own reasoning rather than someone else's. You can even ask to be questioned in the style of a specific one of these methods. The README is direct that coercive historical techniques are documented only as cautionary examples of what fails, not as methods this skill actually uses. The project sets firm ethical boundaries: you can only ever interrogate yourself, with your own consent, and the skill refuses outright if asked to help interrogate another person, such as an employee or a suspect. There is no coercion, only pressure built from unanswerable contradictions in what you already said, and you can stop the session at any time. It installs as a Claude Code plugin with a single marketplace command, or manually by copying the skill folder into your Claude Code or Claude Desktop skills directory. It works in both English and Russian and is released under the MIT License.

Yoink these prompts

Prompt 1
Interrogate me about why I keep delaying launching this project.
Prompt 2
Grill me on this business decision before I commit to it.
Prompt 3
Install the Interrogation Partner skill in Claude Code and start a session with me.
Prompt 4
Question me in the style of the PEACE model about a choice I am second-guessing.

Frequently asked questions

wtf is interrogation-partner?

A Claude Code skill that questions you about your own decisions until your polished story gives way to what is actually true.

What license does interrogation-partner use?

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

How hard is interrogation-partner to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is interrogation-partner for?

Mainly general.

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