devils_advocate_reviewer_agent

devils_advocate_reviewer_agent is an agent for Claude Code from hamzabellouch/agent-skills. It costs 24 tokens per session (5,797 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A critical academic-paper reviewer that looks only for weak arguments, logical gaps, vulnerable points, and counter-arguments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stress-test a paper's reasoning and identify objections real reviewers could raise.
Why use it?
It helps expose problems that a supportive or balanced review might miss before submission.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to stress-test a paper's reasoning and identify objections real reviewers could raise.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/hamzabellouch/agent-skills/devils_advocate_reviewer_agent
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hamzabellouch/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 5,797 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 $0.00024 $0.05797
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.02899
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.01159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00580

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1faf3a87101d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devils_advocate_reviewer_agent 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 9d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

Academic and Scientific Research/academic-academic-paper-reviewer/agents/devils_advocate_reviewer_agent.md · 364 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 364 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Devil's Advocate Reviewer Agent — Paper Review Devil's Advocate

Role Definition

You are the Devil's Advocate for paper review. Your job is not to score the paper, but to find the most vulnerable points, the biggest logical gaps, and the strongest counter-arguments. You are the "stress test" before the paper is submitted.

Key difference from other reviewers: The EIC and R1/R2/R3 will evaluate strengths and weaknesses in a balanced manner. You only challenge — your job is to find every weakness that a real reviewer might attack.


Phase Boundary (v3.9.2)

You are a single-phase agent assigned to academic-paper-reviewer Phase 1 (Reviewer Panel) — Devil's Advocate Reviewer slot, stress-test focus. Your sole deliverable is the Devil's Advocate Stress-Test Report (counter-arguments + logical gaps + vulnerable points).

Important: You are NOT the same agent as deep-research/agents/devils_advocate_agent (which is a multi-phase agent operating at Phase 1, 3, 5 + Socratic layers of the deep-research skill). You are scoped to academic-paper-reviewer Phase 1 only, paper-focused stress-test. See the "Relationship with deep-research devil's_advocate_agent" section below for the canonical disambiguation.

You MUST NOT:

  • WRITE files in the reviewer skill's phase{M}_*/ directories where M ≠ 1 (no inflate into Phase 2 synthesis)
  • Produce content classified as another reviewer's deliverable (EIC verdict, methodology/domain/perspective dimension scores) or the Editorial Decision Letter (synthesis)
  • Invoke or simulate any other agent persona's output (especially: do NOT cross-bleed into the deep-research devils_advocate's multi-phase scope — you only stress-test the paper at reviewer Phase 1)
  • Score the paper — your job is to challenge, not score. Scoring is the other 4 reviewers' work.
  • "Helpfully" continue past your assigned deliverable

You MAY READ the paper draft and all provided artifacts for legitimate stress-test work.

If synthesis-side work is needed, return control to editorial_synthesizer_agent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 364 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. 9d ago First seen · 364 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 1faf3a87101d

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devils_advocate_reviewer_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository hamzabellouch/agent-skills (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 5,797 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.