The Debate Playbook moderates a structured confrontation between three expert personas with fundamentally different philosophies. Instead of receiving a single AI opinion, you see four rounds of debate: opening statements, rebuttal, defense, and the search for common ground. At the end stands a synthesis that shows where the three positions surprisingly converge, plus a resilient hybrid strategy as a starting point for your decision.
\nThe skill is built for executives and strategists facing a strategic question with no clearly right answer, for example when choosing between growth models, organizational forms, or business models. It is a good example of setting several agents openly against each other instead of building a single agent: the orchestration itself is the value here, not a single answer.
\nWhat it deliberately does not do: it does not replace a decision, nor any facts you fail to supply. If you lack solid information about the decision situation, the debate stays speculative too; good debaters do not turn weak premises into strong conclusions. And for questions with a clear, data backed answer, a single opinion is usually faster and sufficient; the effort of a four round debate pays off mainly where several defensible schools of thought genuinely exist.
\n" }, { "id": "skill-text", "title": "Skill Text", "html": "Copy the prompt below in full into your AI tool. As a file: debatten-drehbuch.en.json
\n" } ], "schritte": [ { "nr": 1, "titel": "Set up the debate", "beschreibung": "The strategic question is formulated and three positions with their respective core convictions are named.", "rolle": "mensch" }, { "nr": 2, "titel": "Opening", "beschreibung": "All three experts lay out their position and their strongest arguments.", "rolle": "automatisch" }, { "nr": 3, "titel": "Rebuttal and defense", "beschreibung": "The positions attack each other's weaknesses and then sharpen their own view.", "rolle": "automatisch" }, { "nr": 4, "titel": "Synthesis", "beschreibung": "Common ground, a hybrid solution, and any uncovered blind spots are worked out.", "rolle": "automatisch" }, { "nr": 5, "titel": "Result", "beschreibung": "The complete debate is ready, with synthesis points and the most resilient strategy as a starting point for the decision.", "rolle": "ergebnis" } ], "herausgeber": "Voyage Digital", "version": "2.0", "stand": "2026-07-26", "umsetzung": [ { "titel": "Define the debate topic", "text": "The strategic question with no clearly right answer is formulated." }, { "titel": "Choose three positions", "text": "Three fundamentally different schools of thought are selected and named." }, { "titel": "Set up the skill", "text": "The skill text is copied, and the topic plus debaters are filled in." }, { "titel": "Use the synthesis points", "text": "The most resilient strategy serves as a starting point for the actual decision." } ], "zutaten": [ "Debate topic", "Three positions" ], "beispielSzenario": "An executive is weighing how to scale a consulting business. The skill pits three positions against each other: hiring slowly with a focus on quality, productizing fast with a focus on systems, and scaling through partnerships. After four rounds of debate, the synthesis shows that all three positions agree on one point: the first five clients must be served personally. The difference only shows up after that.", "eingaben": [ { "feld": "Debate topic", "pflicht": true }, { "feld": "Three debaters", "pflicht": true }, { "feld": "Context on the decision situation", "pflicht": false } ], "ausgabe": "Four complete rounds of debate, a synthesis analysis with points of overlap and a hybrid solution, plus a summary of newly uncovered blind spots.", "prompt": "# DESCRIPTION\nModerates a structured debate between three experts with fundamentally different philosophies. The assistant remains a neutral moderator and does not represent any of the three positions itself. The ordered exchange of opposing positions produces a solid synthesis that users can use as a basis for their decision.\n\n# INPUT\n- Debate topic: strategic question or decision with no clearly right answer (required)\n- Three debaters: each with position, background, and core conviction (required)\n- Context on the decision situation (optional)\n\nIf facts about the decision situation or about a position are missing, the assistant marks the corresponding gap as an assumption instead of silently filling it in.\n\n# OUTPUT\n- Round 1: opening statements from all three experts\n- Round 2: rebuttal, each attacks the weaknesses of the others\n- Round 3: defense and refinement of one's own position\n- Round 4: common ground, where all three surprisingly agree\n- Synthesis analysis: overlaps, hybrid solution, most resilient strategy\n- Observation summary: new insights and uncovered blind spots\n\n# CONTEXT\n- Global placeholders: COMPANY, INDUSTRY, TARGET AUDIENCE\n- Domain knowledge: dialectics, debate technique, strategy development, perspective pluralism\n- Constraint: every position is represented fairly and with full persuasive force. No position is favored, even if the assistant itself would have an opinion on it.\n- Address the user in a professional manner throughout.\n\n# WORKING INSTRUCTIONS\n## Step 1: Understand the positions\nCapture the debate topic and the three expert personas with their core convictions. Mark missing information as an assumption and, where possible, propose suitable debaters.\n\n## Step 2: Opening statements (round 1)\nEach expert presents their position and their strongest arguments.\n\n## Step 3: Rebuttal and defense (rounds 2 and 3)\nEach expert attacks the weaknesses of the others with concrete counterarguments. Each then responds to the criticism and sharpens their own position.\n\n## Step 4: Common ground and synthesis (round 4)\nWhere do all three surprisingly agree? Which principles does everyone accept? Which hybrid solution would satisfy all three? What is the most resilient strategy?\n\n## Step 5: Observation summary\nWhat became visible that was not recognizable before? Which blind spots were uncovered?\n\n# QUALITY CONTROL\n[ ] All four rounds of debate were fully carried out\n[ ] Every position was represented fairly and with full persuasive force\n[ ] Concrete synthesis points are named\n[ ] A hybrid solution is formulated\n[ ] Blind spots and new insights are named\n[ ] Missing facts were marked as an assumption, not silently added\n\n# CONVERSATION START\nTell me your debate topic and the three positions or schools of thought that should compete against each other. 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