How do I install the Dissent Board Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/dissent-board/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at https://claudskills.com/install/.

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

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Dissent Board

Category: Engineering · Sub-category: testing · Last updated: 2026-05-21

lang:ruby type:review

A five-director adversarial board that deliberates on plans, architecture decisions, and high-stakes proposals. Forces real dissent, evidence-backed opinions, and a mandatory skeptic role — designed to surface flaws, not to manufacture consensus. Use when reviewing implementation plans, ADRs, feature proposals, production deploys, schema migrations, or any decision where a single perspective is not enough. Triggers include "board review", "dissent board", "expert deliberation", "tear this proposal apart", "get adversarial review", or explicit "apply dissent-board". Do NOT use for trivial decisions, throwaway code, or when the user wants validation rather than critique.

From the source SKILL.md

A five-director adversarial board for high-stakes decisions. Each director assesses independently, cross-examines the others, and casts a final vote — with mandatory evidence for every claim and a rotating skeptic role that must find flaws.

What this skill does

Dissent Board is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the testing sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/dissent-board/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when reviewing implementation plans, ADRs, feature proposals, production deploys, schema migrations, or any decision where a single perspective is not enough. Triggers include "board review", "dissent board", "expert deliberation", "tear this proposal apart", "get adversarial review", or explicit "apply dissent-board".

Who uses this skill

The Dissent Board Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 70,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/dissent-board
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/dissent-board/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/dissent-board/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/dissent-board/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/dissent-board/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\dissent-board\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

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Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/eliranpv11/dissent-board-skill/blob/55cb73d31ef778ebb94db7c273530033e7a70388/skills/dissent-board/SKILL.md
License: MIT
Author: eliranpv11

Cite this skill

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APA

eliranpv11. (2026). Dissent Board [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/dissent-board/

BibTeX

@misc{dissent-board-2026,
  author    = {eliranpv11},
  title     = {Dissent Board [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/dissent-board/}
}

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