# hate

Tears down a design, plan, or argument before you spend real effort on it. Pinpoints the single fatal flaw and the cheapest check to verify it.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1300 installs · ★ 1342
- Author: LilMGenius
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/LilMGenius/paperthin/tree/HEAD/skills/depth/hate/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/hate

## What it does

This skill attacks an entire proposal rather than picking at isolated lines. It isolates the one load-bearing assumption. The whole structure fails without it. The configuration sets `disable-model-invocation: true`, so you must trigger it deliberately. A permanent demolition reflex would ruin routine coding.

The critique tests several specific failure modes. It targets ungrounded facts or implementations that contradict their stated principles. For research designs, it flags statistical power issues and data leakage. Instead of a bloated checklist, `hate` returns `{ root, first_nail }` — the fatal objection plus the cheapest test to kill the plan early.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill hate -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/hate/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/hate/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill hate -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/hate/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill hate -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/hate/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install LilMGenius/paperthin hate
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/hate/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill hate -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/LilMGenius/paperthin --path skills/depth/hate
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/hate/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill hate -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/LilMGenius/paperthin/tree/HEAD/skills/depth/hate/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- locate the single fatal flaw in an architectural plan before building it
- devise the cheapest test to falsify a load-bearing assumption
- catch cases where an implementation contradicts its stated principle
- spot invalid domain analogies and ungrounded assumptions in proposals

## Example prompts
- Run hate on this database migration proposal
- /hate attack this microservice architecture before we start building
- Find the single load-bearing failure in this technical specification

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: hate
disable-model-invocation: true
description: "Attack a plan, design, or argument like you want it to fail before you commit real effort — return the single load-bearing objection and the cheapest experiment that would prove it matters, not a checklist. User-invoked on purpose: a hate-it reflex always in the agent's reach would bias it toward demolition. Weighs many failure axes but owns the synthesis to one root."
---

Refuse to be nice to the plan — return the one objection that could kill it and the cheapest shot that proves it matters.

## Goal

`hate` asks "what would someone who wants this to fail attack first?" (validity). It attacks the *whole* plan — not one fact or one line, but the load-bearing structure — and collapses the attack to a single root. The highest-value output is never a checklist — it's one objection plus the cheaper experiment hiding inside the elaborate plan.

## Workflow

1. Pin the **load-bearing assumption(s)** — what must hold for the whole thing to stand.
2. Attack on whatever axes apply — the general ones first: **a load-bearing fact** that may be false, **confabulation** (a post-hoc story treated as ground truth), **analogy-mistaken-for-isomorphism** (structure assumed to transfer across domains where it doesn't), **future-tense suture** (the argument leans on a result that doesn't exist yet), and the sharpest — **cites a principle but implements its opposite**; and for empirical / research plans, **leakage** (no external ground-truth enters the validation independently) and **statistical power / family-wise α** (a true hypothesis auto-failing from uncorrected tests; a near-zero-power condition that rubber-stamps regardless of truth).
3. Collapse the findings to the **single root** objection — the one whose failure makes the others moot.
4. Find the **first nail** — the cheapest falsification of the load-bearing assumption: the check (in time / cost / sample) that could kill it *before* the expensive program runs.
5. Return `{ root, first_nail }` — not a list.

## Rules

- **Attack, don't improve** — improving is a different reflex.
- **Own the synthesis** — many axes may fire, but collapse them to the single load-bearing root; return that, never a list.

## Verification

Before finishing:

1. The root is genuinely load-bearing — the plan falls without it.
2. The first nail is genuinely cheaper than the plan it would pre-empt.
```
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© LilMGenius · MIT · https://github.com/LilMGenius/paperthin/tree/HEAD/skills/depth/hate/SKILL.md

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