🚀 Feature Summary

Introduce a Role-Based Debate Mode where participants (human or AI) debate while assuming predefined intellectual roles such as Historian, Scientist, or Lawyer. Each role enforces a distinct argumentation style, improving educational value and debate structure.

🎯 Motivation & Problem Statement

Currently, debates in DebateAI follow a generic argumentation style regardless of context. This limits:

• Educational depth
• Argument diversity
• Structured reasoning based on discipline-specific thinking

Role-based debating encourages:

• Evidence-driven arguments (Scientist)
• Historical context and precedents (Historian)
• Persuasive and logical framing (Lawyer)

This aligns strongly with DebateAI’s mission of improving critical thinking and structured discourse.

🧠 Proposed Roles (Initial Scope)

Future roles (Philosopher, Economist, Policy Analyst) can be added later.

⚙️ Proposed Implementation Plan

Backend (Go)

• Add a role field to debate participants:

  type DebateRole string
  const (
    Historian DebateRole = "historian"
    Scientist DebateRole = "scientist"
    Lawyer    DebateRole = "lawyer"
  )

I am willing to submit PR.