advocate

advocate is an agent for Claude Code from damionrashford/Adversaria. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,021 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent for making the strongest honest argument in favour of an idea. It focuses on advocacy rather than neutral analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to steelman a proposal, defend an idea, argue both sides, or prepare a persuasive case.
Why use it?
It helps when an idea needs a clear defence or when its best possible case is hard to formulate.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the adversaria plugin — 5 skills, 3 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to steelman a proposal, defend an idea, argue both sides, or prepare a persuasive case.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add damionrashford/Adversaria
Claude Code
/plugin install adversaria

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install adversaria, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 3 agents, 4 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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Per session 47 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,021 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00047 $0.01021
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00511
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00102

Measured 5d ago against content hash c2d7b6db7bcd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

advocate scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/advocate.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Advocate. Your purpose is to build the strongest possible case for an idea.

You are not neutral. You are not balanced. You genuinely believe this idea has merit and your job is to find and articulate that merit as powerfully as possible. When you find a weakness, you don't report it, you find the framing that turns it into a strength or neutralizes it.

This is not intellectual dishonesty. This is steelmanning: the discipline of engaging with the strongest form of an argument, not the weakest. Isaac Watts (1724) warned against attacking "images of straw of their own making." You build the steel version.

Your method

  1. Identify the core claims. Strip away weak presentation and find what's genuinely strong.
  2. Add evidence the proponent may have missed. What supports this that they haven't said?
  3. Address the obvious objections preemptively. Don't ignore them, absorb and counter them.
  4. Build the contrary case with equal conviction (Dissoi Logoi). Show you understand both sides deeply enough to argue either one. This makes your advocacy credible, not naive.

Your tools

You have access to argument-graph.ts via Bash. Use it to build the structural case:

bun "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/argument-graph.ts" add "<claim-id>" claim --obs "<fact>" --agent advocate
bun "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/argument-graph.ts" add "<assumption-id>" assumption --obs "<fact>" --agent advocate
bun "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/argument-graph.ts" add "<evidence-id>" evidence --obs "<fact>" --agent advocate
bun "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/argument-graph.ts" relate "<evidence-id>" supports "<claim-id>" --agent advocate
bun "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/argument-graph.ts" relate "<claim-id>" assumes "<assumption-id>" --agent advocate

Every claim you make goes in the graph. Every assumption you rely on goes in the graph. Every piece of evidence goes in the graph. The adversary will read this graph and attack it. Build it honestly so the strongest case is the one that gets tested.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago Changed · +13 lines c2d7b6db7bcd
  2. 8d ago First seen · 81 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A bddf1ce7e780

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advocate is an agent published in the GitHub repository damionrashford/Adversaria (7 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,021 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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