adversarial-analysis

adversarial-analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from adilkalam/orca. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,826 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A six-step method for stress-testing a proposal before committing to it, including failure scenarios, assumptions, edge cases, objections, and a final decision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run a pre-mortem, audit assumptions, examine edge cases, catalog failure modes, consider counterarguments, and reach a go or no-go verdict.
Why use it?
It helps reveal weaknesses and prevent avoidable failures before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/adilkalam/orca/adversarial-analysis
Any agent
npx skills add adilkalam/orca --skill adversarial-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adilkalam/orca

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,826 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 $0.01826
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00913
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00365
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00183

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0753ec6bea12, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adversarial-analysis 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.

skills/adversarial-analysis/SKILL.md · 309 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 309 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Adversarial Analysis

RULE: Before implementing any significant proposal, systematically attack it to find weaknesses.

The Principle

Proposals that survive adversarial scrutiny are more robust. This skill provides a 6-phase framework for stress-testing ideas before commitment.

Loading This Skill

Agents can load via:

required_skills:
  - adversarial-analysis

Or dynamically invoke:

skill: adversarial-analysis

The 6-Phase Framework

Phase 1: Pre-mortem

"It's 6 months from now. This failed. Why?"

Assume complete failure and work backwards. What went wrong?

Process:

  1. Vividly imagine the failure state
  2. Identify 5-7 distinct failure scenarios
  3. Trace each back to root causes
  4. Note which causes were preventable

Output format:

### Pre-mortem
> "It's 6 months from now. This failed. Why?"
- [Failure scenario 1]: [Root cause]
- [Failure scenario 2]: [Root cause]
- [Failure scenario 3]: [Root cause]

Phase 2: Assumption Audit

Every proposal rests on assumptions. Surface and stress-test them.

Process:

  1. List every assumption (explicit and implicit)
  2. Rate confidence: H (high) / M (medium) / L (low)
  3. For each, answer: "If wrong, what breaks?"

Output format:

### Assumptions (confidence: H/M/L)
| Assumption | Confidence | If Wrong |
|------------|------------|----------|
| [Assumption 1] | M | [Impact if false] |
| [Assumption 2] | L | [Impact if false] |
| [Assumption 3] | H | [Impact if false] |

Prioritize low-confidence, high-impact assumptions for deeper analysis.


Phase 3: Edge Case Storm

Generate 10+ scenarios that could break the proposal.

Process:

  1. Think about boundary conditions
  2. Consider rare but possible inputs
  3. Imagine hostile actors
  4. Consider scale extremes (0, 1, many, millions)
  5. Consider timing/ordering issues
  6. Consider resource exhaustion
  7. Consider integration failures

Output format:

### Edge Cases
- [Breaking scenario 1]
- [Breaking scenario 2]
- [Breaking scenario 3]
... (minimum 10)

Read the full file on GitHub · 309 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 · 309 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 0753ec6bea12

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adversarial-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository adilkalam/orca (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,826 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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