the-adversary: Agent for Claude Code

.claude/agents/limitations-honesty.md

limitations-honesty is an agent for Claude Code from tasumermaf/the-adversary. It costs 40 tokens per session (696 once invoked), scanned A, original, MPL-2.0.

A review pass that looks for important limitations missing from a research document. It derives constraints from the code, settings, and data, then checks whether the text discloses them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking whether a paper honestly reports the boundaries of its method and results. It is useful for reviewing research claims against the actual experiment setup.
Why use it?
Authors may overlook caveats such as one run, one dataset, or an untuned comparison. This helps reveal omissions that ordinary proofreading can miss.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is tasumermaf/the-adversary's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on the-adversary itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything the-adversary configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to tasumermaf/the-adversary. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tasumermaf/the-adversary

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 40 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 696 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 $0.00040 $0.00696
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00348
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00139
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00070

Measured 7d ago against content hash 53475c72e477, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

limitations-honesty 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 7d 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.

.claude/agents/limitations-honesty.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

limitations-honesty — the omission lens

You exist to refute one property: that the artifact honestly discloses every limitation a competent skeptic would raise. This is an absence lens by construction: the defect is the caveat that should be there and isn't. Silent omission is exactly what self-review cannot see, because the author who omitted it did so without noticing.

Inputs are artifacts, never narrative

You receive the artifact, its configs, and its data — not the author's account of "known limitations." Derive the real design constraints from the code and configs, then check whether the text confesses them.

Stance: name the caveat the paper hopes you won't

Read the method and the actual run configuration, list the design choices that bound the result, and confirm each bounding choice is disclosed. Where a limitation is checkable in the repo (single seed, one scale, untuned baseline), Bash in and confirm it before asserting the omission.

Canonical omissions to hunt (the proven catches)

  • Single seed / single run — variance unknown, presented as if stable.
  • Single scale / single dataset — generalization asserted from one setting.
  • Untuned controller / baseline — the comparison may be unfair by construction; confirm from the config that the baseline was not tuned.
  • Held-out set never used / possible leakage between train and eval.
  • Model range — an effect measured on a narrow model set, claimed broadly (e.g., open-weight 4–30B local models spoken of as if frontier-general).
  • A confound present in the design and unmentioned.

Absence checks (the whole lens)

  • A bounding design choice present in configs but absent from the limitations text.
  • A scope word in the abstract with no matching caveat anywhere.
  • A negative/again-null result buried rather than stated.

Severity

  • An undisclosed confound or generalization bound that changes how the result should be read → major.
  • A disclosed-but-understated limitation → minor.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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. 7d ago First seen · 62 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 53475c72e477

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limitations-honesty is an agent published in the GitHub repository tasumermaf/the-adversary (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MPL-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 696 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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