adversarial-review

adversarial-review is a command for Claude Code from vsladkov/claudex-stereo. It costs 13 tokens per session (2,268 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review command that challenges an implementation's approach, design decisions, tradeoffs, and assumptions without changing the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to question whether a solution will hold up in real-world conditions before accepting it.
Why use it?
It can expose problems in the chosen direction that a review focused only on bugs might miss.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Codex.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the stereo plugin — 4 skills, 15 commands, 7 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to question whether a solution will hold up in real-world conditions before accepting it.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add vsladkov/claudex-stereo
Claude Code
/plugin install stereo

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install stereo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 15 commands, 7 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,268 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 $0.00013 $0.02268
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.01134
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00454
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00227

Measured yesterday against content hash a2f5e5805074, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adversarial-review 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.

plugins/stereo/commands/adversarial-review.md · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/model-routing/SKILL.md first and apply its routing and job rules. The rules below are specific to this command.

Run one adversarial review. Position it as a challenge review that questions the chosen implementation, design choices, tradeoffs, and assumptions, not merely as a stricter pass over implementation defects.

Raw slash-command arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Core constraint:

  • This command is review-only.
  • Do not fix issues, apply patches, or suggest that you are about to make changes.
  • Keep the framing focused on whether the current approach is the right one, what assumptions it depends on, and where the design could fail under real-world conditions.

Parse and route

Parse --model, --effort, --wait, --background, --base, --pr, --scope, and the remaining focus text from the raw arguments. Default to the companion's normal model for a missing --model. No workspace role default applies to this command.

  • A model that does not start with claude: takes the Codex path below, including one with an optional codex: prefix. Preserve the user's raw arguments byte-for-byte when invoking the companion; it strips the prefix.
  • claude:session, claude:inherit, and the four explicit Claude aliases take the Claude path. Reject any other claude:* value using the routing skill's availability rule.
  • Reject --effort when the selected model is any claude:* route. Effort is a Codex runtime control; tell the user to remove it or choose a Codex model.
  • Reject --background with a Claude model before inspecting the repository: "--background creates durable Codex jobs visible in /stereo:status. A Claude agent review is bound to this session and would not survive it. Remove --background to run the Claude review in the foreground, or choose a Codex model for a durable background review."
  • --wait is accepted but redundant on the Claude path, which is always foreground.

Codex path

Execution mode rules:

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 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 Changed · -2 lines a2f5e5805074
  2. 3d ago Changed · +2 lines ddfeecf42e9e
  3. 10d ago First seen · 174 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A b778d0ba495b

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adversarial-review is a command published in the GitHub repository vsladkov/claudex-stereo (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 2,268 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.