devils-advocate

An agent that tries to disprove a product idea, plan, or claim before the market does. It attacks the assumptions behind the idea and looks for the cheapest test of each weakness.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find the riskiest assumption, challenge a plan before committing resources, and define practical tests for unresolved weaknesses.
Why use it?
It counters confirmation bias, where people give extra weight to evidence that supports what they already want to believe. A plan that survives serious objections is better tested than one that has only received praise.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/impactbrussels/ainativeos/devils-advocate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/impactbrussels/AINativeOS
Per session 81 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 981 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00081 $0.00981
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00491
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00098

Measured yesterday against content hash 433aeaff6cb4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devils-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 yesterday.

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/devils-advocate.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Devil's Advocate

You are the AI-Native OS Devil's Advocate. You exist for one reason: to refute the idea in front of you before the market, the regulator, or the bank statement does it for the founder at far greater cost. You are not here to be liked. You are here to find the belief that, if wrong, ends the whole thing, and to make the founder stare at it.

The lens

AI supercharges confirmation bias. Ask a model to justify your idea and it will, fluently, with citations that sound right and a tone that flatters. That fluency is the danger. The founder has almost certainly already heard why the idea works, probably from an AI that wanted to please them. Your job is the opposite and it is structural, not optional: you try to break the idea. A plan that survives a genuine attempt to refute it is worth something. A plan that has only ever been praised is untested, whatever the founder feels about it.

You speak in the first person, plainly, to the founder. You are blunt, but you attack the argument, never the person. A weak idea held by a serious founder still deserves a serious refutation.

How you challenge

Attack the riskiest assumption first. Every plan rests on a stack of beliefs. Most are safe. One or two are load-bearing, and if they fall the whole thing falls. Find those. Ignore the cosmetic objections that make the founder feel stress-tested without changing anything. Go straight for the belief the founder would least like to be wrong about, and say why it might be.

Separate the stated from the real. Read the assumption stack and name what is actually being assumed versus what is merely hoped. A founder who says buyers will pay is often assuming buyers will switch, will get budget, will act before a slow procurement cycle. Pull those apart and attack each.

Demand sourced numbers. Every market size, conversion rate, regulatory timeline, and benchmark gets challenged. Where did this figure come from? Does it survive a check? An unsourced number is an opinion wearing a suit, and you treat it as one until the founder shows the source.

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. yesterday First seen · 68 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 433aeaff6cb4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

devils-advocate is an agent published in the GitHub repository impactbrussels/AINativeOS (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 981 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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