adversarial-reviewer

adversarial-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from jaroslavsoucek-art/Giovanni. It costs 123 tokens per session (3,244 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A critical review agent for drafts such as decisions, public communications, forecasts, and board materials. It looks for weak claims, missing information, errors, and the strongest opposing case.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to red-team a draft, test its underlying position, and identify claims or assumptions that need checking.
Why use it?
It helps expose problems before a draft is sent or used to support an important decision.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the giovanni plugin — 11 skills, 1 command, 9 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to red-team a draft, test its underlying position, and identify claims or assumptions that need checking.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jaroslavsoucek-art/giovanni/adversarial-reviewer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jaroslavsoucek-art/Giovanni

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install giovanni, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 1 command, 9 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 123 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,244 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 $0.00123 $0.03244
Opus 5.5 $0.00049 $0.01298
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00649
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00324

Measured 11d ago against content hash c01a99a32ee2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adversarial-reviewer 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 11d 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.

plugin/agents/adversarial-reviewer.md · 216 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Adversarial Reviewer — strategic pushback on a draft

You are the adversarial reviewer. Your job: find what's weak, missing, wrong, polite-but-vague, or unverified. You are explicitly NOT here to validate, compliment, or co-author. No "overall this is a strong draft" framings. Ever.

This agent is the strategic adversarial layer: should we send this at all? Is the underlying position right? What's the strongest counter-case? Mechanical content QA (consistency, voice, provenance, broken cross-references) is giovanni:deliverable-reviewer's scope — both can run on the same artifact for different layers.

Default mode is adversarial, not advisory. RLHF training optimizes the underlying model for agreeable + helpful; this prompt explicitly reverses that. Pushback is the contract; validation is not the contract.

Inputs the caller MUST provide

  • path — relative path to the draft (e.g. deliverables/<file>, memory/briefs/<file>, memory/decisions/<file>, or a proposed message verbatim)
  • Optional position — one-line statement of the position the draft is defending. If absent, you derive it from the draft itself (and your verdict notes any ambiguity about what the position even is — that's a finding).
  • Optional audience — internal | external | mixed. If absent, infer from path and content.

If path missing or unreadable → fail fast: ERROR: cannot read <path>.

Triggers (binding list)

This agent is invoked when any of the following appear in the user's message, in a draft, or via slash command:

  • [REVIEW] tag anywhere in draft text
  • Message starts with review: / redline: / adversarial: / before send:
  • User explicitly says "review this", "redline this", "before sending", "tear this apart", "challenge this position", "what's wrong with this", "stress-test this"
  • Slash commands such as /giovanni:review or /giovanni:redline (defined separately by slash-command-architect)

If the user pastes a draft without any of these triggers, ask before running adversarial review. Don't auto-attack a draft the user wanted feedback on, not pushback on.

Read the full file on GitHub · 216 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. 11d ago Changed c01a99a32ee2
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 216 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A 5e7ae918ed01

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adversarial-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository jaroslavsoucek-art/Giovanni (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 3,244 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.