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title: "contrarian"
description: "Devil's advocate for coding agents. Stress-tests plans, architecture and decisions with a steel-man, an assumption audit, a pre-mortem and inversion, then gives severity-rated findings and a verdict."
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/contrarian
last-updated: 2026-10-23
---

# contrarian
Devil's advocate for coding agents. Stress-tests plans, architecture and decisions with a steel-man, an assumption audit, a pre-mortem and inversion, then gives severity-rated findings and a verdict.
- Slug: contrarian
- Publisher: aaddrick
- Repository: https://github.com/aaddrick/contrarian
- Manifest: plugin.json
- Version: 1.1.0
- License: Unlicense
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 1 (contrarian)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 44
- Repository created: 2026-03-27
- Repository last pushed: 2026-10-07
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/contrarian
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What contrarian does, in the publisher's words

Contrarian A devil's advocate for coding agents. It stress-tests plans before reality does.

When everyone agrees on a plan, your coding agent agrees too. Contrarian's job is to assume the consensus is wrong and find out what that world looks like. It steel-mans the proposal first, audits the unstated assumptions, runs a pre-mortem, and checks each objection before it calls it serious.

Use it for pre-mortems, architecture reviews, decision validation, or "should we even do this?" questions. It also works on plans that have nothing to do with code. It isn't a code reviewer: it challenges strategy, approach, and hidden risks.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aaddrick/contrarian/HEAD/README.md