A Claude Code skill that builds reusable war rooms — 3 world-class experts who wage total war over your topic and produce a battle-tested verdict.
Custom War Room lets you create, save, and reuse panels of 3 top-tier experts who debate any topic until they reach genuine consensus — or an honest truce.
It operates in three modes:
| Mode | What happens |
|---|---|
| Create | Generates 3 expert profiles + config in a reusable folder. Debate starts immediately. |
| Invoke | Loads an existing war room folder and starts the debate with preloaded profiles. |
| One-shot | Ephemeral debate — nothing saved, just raw war. |
The skill detects the mode automatically from your message. No configuration needed.
- Profile selection — The skill picks 3 absolute titans of the domain. Not "someone who works in the field" — THE person whose name IS the field. Their philosophies must genuinely clash.
- War — Experts debate in rounds. They interrupt, misquote each other on purpose, form alliances and break them. Hidden agendas surface as rounds progress. Maximum 10 rounds.
- Verdict — Each expert declares their final position and what they had to swallow to get there.
- Consensus — Actionable summary of what was agreed, or the truce if no full agreement.
Profiles follow a strict hierarchy:
- Top-tier, world-class famous figures — founders, Nobel laureates, legendary CEOs, iconic creators. If you have to explain who they are, pick someone bigger.
- Hyper-specific fictional archetypes — only if no suitable real titans exist. Never generic, never B-list.
Validation test: Would these three people professionally despise each other? If not, change them.
cp -r war-room-builder/ .claude/skills/custom-war-room/cp -r war-room-builder/ ~/.claude/skills/custom-war-room/npx skills add ericrisco/war-room-builderCreate a war room to analyze LinkedIn content strategy Activate my war room at ./brand-war-room about this document War panel on whether we should migrate to microservices Each persistent war room creates a self-contained folder:
my-war-room/ ├── war-room.config.json # metadata: name, topic, mode ├── profiles/ │ ├── expert-1.md # expert profile 1 │ ├── expert-2.md # expert profile 2 │ └── expert-3.md # expert profile 3 └── SKILL.md # standalone installable skill Each generated war room works as an independent skill — install it, share it, version it.
These are sacred. They apply always, without exception:
- They interrupt without asking permission
- They deliberately misquote each other
- They change positions if the argument warrants it
- They form alliances and break them when convenient
- They have hidden agendas that surface as rounds progress
- Maximum 10 rounds, genuine consensus or honest truce
- If consensus comes early, it ends early — no padding
custom-war-room/ ├── SKILL.md # Main skill file (instructions for Claude) ├── references/ │ └── profile-template.md # Expert profile template ├── README.md └── LICENSE MIT — see LICENSE for details.