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Rubber Duck Deluxe
by
John DeVere Cooley
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· v1.0.0
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Install in OpenClaw
/install rubber-duck-deluxe
Description
The classic rubber duck debugging technique, upgraded with personality modes. Choose your duck: Socrates asks devastating questions until you find the answer...
Usage Guidance
This skill is internally coherent and low-risk: it only contains conversational role templates and requests no installs or credentials. Before installing, open the raw SKILL.md in a text editor or hex viewer and search for invisible or control characters (zero-width space, zero-width joiner, Unicode control codes). If you find any, ask the author to explain/remove them. Because the skill can be invoked autonomously by default, if you are worried about prompt-level attacks you can disable autonomous invocation or restrict the skill to manual use. Never provide secrets or credentials to this skill — it does not need them.
Capability Analysis
Type: OpenClaw Skill
Name: rubber-duck-deluxe
Version: 1.0.0
The skill is a collection of persona-based instructions designed to facilitate 'rubber duck debugging' through various AI personalities (e.g., Socrates, Gordon Ramsay). It contains no executable code, no external dependencies, and no instructions for data exfiltration or unauthorized system access. The content is entirely focused on role-playing interactions within the SKILL.md file to help users articulate and solve programming problems.
Capability Assessment
Purpose & Capability
The name/description (interactive debugging with personality modes) matches the SKILL.md content. There are no declared binaries, env vars, or installs that would be out-of-scope for a conversational debugging tool.
Instruction Scope
The runtime instructions are purely conversational templates and role instructions; they do not tell the agent to read files, call external APIs, or access environment variables. However, the pre-scan detected unicode-control-chars in the SKILL.md which can be used to hide or obfuscate text (a common prompt-injection technique). Manual inspection of the raw file for hidden/zero-width/control characters is recommended.
Install Mechanism
No install spec and no code files — this is the lowest-risk category from an install perspective (nothing will be written to disk by an installer).
Credentials
The skill declares no required environment variables, credentials, or config paths. There is no apparent need for secrets or elevated access to perform the described conversational behavior.
Persistence & Privilege
always:false (not forced-enabled). user-invocable:true and disable-model-invocation:false (agent may call it autonomously) — this is the platform default and reasonable for a conversational helper. The skill does not request modification of other skills or system-wide settings.
How to Use
- Make sure OpenClaw is installed (local or Docker)
- Run the install command in chat:
/install rubber-duck-deluxe - After installation, invoke the skill by name or use
/rubber-duck-deluxe - Provide required inputs per the skill's parameter spec and get structured output
Version History
v1.0.0
Initial release
Metadata
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Rubber Duck Deluxe?
The classic rubber duck debugging technique, upgraded with personality modes. Choose your duck: Socrates asks devastating questions until you find the answer... It is an AI Agent Skill for Claude Code / OpenClaw, with 261 downloads so far.
How do I install Rubber Duck Deluxe?
Run "/install rubber-duck-deluxe" in the OpenClaw or Claude Code chat to install it in one step — no extra setup required.
Is Rubber Duck Deluxe free?
Yes, Rubber Duck Deluxe is completely free (open-source). You can download, install and use it at no cost.
Which platforms does Rubber Duck Deluxe support?
Rubber Duck Deluxe is cross-platform and runs anywhere OpenClaw / Claude Code is available (darwin, linux, win32).
Who created Rubber Duck Deluxe?
It is built and maintained by John DeVere Cooley (@jcools1977); the current version is v1.0.0.
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