The opposite of strawmanning. Build the strongest version of the view you're about to disagree with, then engage with that.
Steelman is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/steelman/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when the user has dismissed an alternative and you want to test that dismissal honestly. Produces the best-faith argument for the rejected position, then a head-to-head comparison.
The Steelman Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/steelman curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/steelman/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/steelman/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/steelman/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/steelman/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\steelman\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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