---
title: "Debate"
category: 06-communication
level: advanced
stability: stable
description: "Apply debate in AI agent workflows."
added: "2025-03"
---

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# Debate

**Category:** `communication`  
**Skill Level:** `advanced`  
**Stability:** `stable`
**Added:** 2025-03

### Description

Present and defend positions from multiple perspectives, engaging in structured argumentation to surface the strongest reasoning.

### Example

```
Motion: "LLMs should replace traditional search engines."
Pro: Conversational, synthesized answers, no link-hopping needed.
Con: Hallucination risk, no real-time indexing, citation gaps.
Judgement: Hybrid approach superior for most use cases.
```

### Related Skills

- [Argument Construction](argument-construction.md)
- [Debate Pattern](../09-agentic-patterns/debate-pattern.md)
