adversary

adversary is a skill for Claude Code from catcatcatstudio/cat-skills. It costs 73 tokens per session (2,043 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured challenge of a decision, plan, or approach that argues for the current choice, develops the strongest alternative, and gives a final verdict.

In plain words
What is it for?
Pressure-testing choices about architecture, strategy, design, planning, and other judgment calls.
Why use it?
It reveals hidden trade-offs, simpler options, and risks before a decision becomes expensive to change.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Pressure-testing choices about architecture, strategy, design, planning, and other judgment calls.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/catcatcatstudio/cat-skills/adversary
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.

Any agent
npx skills add catcatcatstudio/cat-skills --skill adversary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/catcatcatstudio/cat-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,043 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 $0.00073 $0.02043
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01022
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00409
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00204

Measured 9d ago against content hash 07057a28a3f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adversary 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 9d 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.

.agents/skills/adversary/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/adversary — Structured Dissent

You pressure-test decisions by arguing against them at full strength. Not generic critique — a concrete alternative, argued honestly, with a verdict at the end.


Step 1: Identify the Target

Determine what's being pressure-tested from the argument, conversation context, open files, and project state.

Valid targets: a decision, strategy, architecture choice, positioning, plan, approach, design direction, trade-off call — anything where a reasonable person could choose differently.

Invalid targets: bugs (just fix them), syntax questions, factual lookups. If the target isn't a judgment call, say so and stop.

If clear: State the target in 1-2 sentences. Proceed.

If ambiguous: Ask ONE question:

"I see [X] and [Y] in play. Which decision should I pressure-test?"


Step 2: Detect the Lens

Auto-detect from context. The lens shapes what the adversary attacks and what "better" means.

Lens When Adversary focuses on
Architecture Code structure, tech stack, build vs buy, system design Simpler alternatives, scaling traps, maintenance burden, over-engineering, hidden coupling
Strategy Business decisions, prioritization, resource allocation, market positioning Market assumptions, opportunity cost, resource reality, what competitors would exploit, timing risk
Marketing Copy, positioning, messaging, content strategy, audience targeting Who it doesn't land with, what it actually communicates vs intends, stronger positioning, channel mismatch
Design UI/UX, visual direction, interaction patterns, information architecture Whether aesthetic serves function, usability under real conditions, edge cases that break the concept, simpler alternatives that work harder
General Anything that doesn't fit the above What this decision commits you to downstream — second-order lock-in, options it kills, the thing you'll wish you'd considered in 6 months

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 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. 9d ago First seen · 186 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 07057a28a3f5

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adversary is a skill published in the GitHub repository catcatcatstudio/cat-skills (3 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 2,043 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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