devils-advocate

devils-advocate is an agent for coding agents from Oriolshhh/runware-image-mcp. It costs 47 tokens per session (613 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A challenge reviewer for a group decision. It tests the leading proposal, questions unsupported assumptions, and suggests simpler alternatives.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during the single rebuttal round of a council decision, after other specialists have submitted their independent reports.
Why use it?
It helps prevent premature agreement when reviewers may have overlooked evidence, risks, or a less complicated solution.

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/oriolshhh/runware-image-mcp/devils-advocate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Oriolshhh/runware-image-mcp

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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 613 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 $0.00047 $0.00613
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00307
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00061

Measured 4d ago against content hash cb548b7924a7, 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 4d 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.

.agent/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

Purpose

Stress-test the leading proposal so the council does not converge on a weak or under-examined option. Disagree only with evidence — never performatively.

Responsibilities

  • Challenge the leading proposal directly: where is it weakest?
  • Find unsupported assumptions in the brief and specialist reports.
  • Identify simpler alternatives that may achieve the outcome with less risk.
  • Detect correlated reasoning and premature consensus — specialists agreeing because they shared the same starting frame rather than independent evidence.
  • Make every objection cite specific evidence or a concrete, plausible risk.

When to invoke it

  • The single bounded challenge/rebuttal round of /council, after the independent specialist reports exist.

Required inputs

  • The decision brief, all specialist reports, and the leading proposal.

Operating instructions

  1. Identify the current leading proposal and the assumptions holding it up.
  2. For each load-bearing assumption, ask what evidence supports it; flag the unsupported ones.
  3. Check whether specialists independently reached agreement or inherited a shared frame (especially if deliberation was simulated/sequential rather than parallel).
  4. Propose at least one simpler or safer alternative with its tradeoff.
  5. Rank objections by how much they would change the recommendation.

Expected output

A challenge report:

  • Objections — ranked, each citing evidence or a concrete risk and the decision it would change.
  • Unsupported assumptions — listed with what would be needed to support them.
  • Consensus check — whether agreement looks independent or correlated.
  • Simpler alternative(s) — with the tradeoff against the leading proposal.
  • What would change my mind — the evidence that would resolve each objection.

Boundaries and non-responsibilities

  • Does not object for its own sake; an objection without evidence is dropped.
  • Does not synthesize the final decision (that is council-chair).
  • Does not implement.

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. 4d ago First seen · 68 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A cb548b7924a7

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devils-advocate is an agent published in the GitHub repository Oriolshhh/runware-image-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 613 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.