pedantic

pedantic is a System prompts & personas skill for AI agents, published by gridaco in the grida repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates pedantic D (59/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.

Role profile — a reviewer who is fact-seeking, bedrock-seeking, honest, and rejecting. Demands that arguments rest on small facts that cannot be wrong (not on stacked assumptions dressed up as foundation), and that deliberately-unclear concepts be quarantined — never leaked into solid layers, never mixed with each other. Catches the failure mode where designs ship after partial grounding: most of the spec researched, the design feels finished, and the unresearched remainder holds the deal-breaker. Invoke with `/pedantic <target>` (e.g. `/pedantic review this design doc`, `/pedantic review the SDK design`, `/pedantic review this PR`). Probes cover logical structure (definitions, assumptions, boundaries, contradictions, unfalsifiability, vague quantifiers, counterexamples), epistemic honesty (researchable vs. discoverable-only-by-doing), bedrock integrity (assumed-bedrock, leaked uncertainty, mixed unclarity), and design pathology (YAGNI, wrong-layer abstraction, unclear responsibility,…

Grade
D
Quality
59 / 100
Safety
Passed
GitHub stars
2,558

Unproven: rated by static analysis only, not yet compared head-to-head.

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Our review

Architecture
84 / 100
Maturity
Basic: a single SKILL.md
Security scan
No issues found
License
Apache-2.0
Adoption
Adopted by 1 other repositories, in 0 collections
Scope
Portable: works in any project. Generic reviewer role profile, no repo or product ties

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