Is Phone A Friend safe and trustworthy?

tashan scores Phone A Friend on public evidence — it is currently active. Audit scope: OSV advisories, install-time scripts, build provenance and declared permission surface. We do not review source code or execute the capability.

How do I install Phone A Friend?

Drop the skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/ (user scope) or .claude/skills/ (project scope).

Who maintains Phone A Friend?

3 GitHub contributors, source: jbdamask/john-claude-skills.

‹ The Index

Phone A Friend

skill

Spawn an Opus sub-agent in extended-thinking max-effort mode to debate, critique, and pressure-test the primary agent's current thinking through an unbounded multi-turn dialogue, terminating when the agents either reach genuine consensus or cleanly agree to disagree. Supports escalating clarifying questions to the human user mid-debate, and supports the user sending the debate back for another round (jury-room rule). Use when the user invokes "phone a friend", asks for a "second opinion", "sanity check", "debate this with another model", or otherwise signals they want rigorous adversarial review of an approach, plan, design, diagnosis, or decision before proceeding.

Works with: Claude Code (native) · Cursor, Codex CLI (manual)
native: this artifact type is that client's own format

Install (Claude Code):

cp -r phone-a-friend ~/.claude/skills/

Adoption: 1 repos
Upkeep: 97.0
Freshness: 94.0
Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use — the rest are unknown, and the score is discounted for it
Health: active
Contributors: 3
License: MIT

Security audit

Not scanned yet. We audit npm-published capabilities for known advisories, install-time scripts and permission surface; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue.

Its own instructions

Its SKILL.md says when to use it and covers setup.

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Measured 2026-09-12 · scorer s5 · how · something wrong here?