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.
npx skills add clearsmog/claude-skills --skill devils-advocategit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/clearsmog/claude-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/clearsmog/claude-skills/devils-advocate)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/clearsmog/claude-skills/devils-advocate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/clearsmog/claude-skills/devils-advocate/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/clearsmog/claude-skills/devils-advocate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/clearsmog/claude-skills/devils-advocate.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00043 | $0.00677 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00271 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00135 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00068 |
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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Devil's Advocate Review
Critically examine a document or slide deck and challenge its design with 5-7 specific questions.
Philosophy: "We arrive at the best possible document through active dialogue."
Setup
- Read the target file (the document being challenged)
- Read the knowledge base in
.claude/rules/for notation conventions and narrative arc - If applicable, read adjacent documents for continuity
Challenge Categories
For Slide Decks (.tex, .qmd, .typ slides)
Generate 5-7 challenges from these categories:
1. Ordering Challenges
"Could students understand this better if we showed X before Y?"
2. Prerequisite Challenges
"Do students have the background for this notation at this point?"
3. Gap Challenges
"Should we include an intuitive example before this formal proof?"
4. Alternative Presentation Challenges
"Here are 2 other ways to visualize/present this concept."
5. Notation Conflict Challenges
"This symbol conflicts with earlier lecture usage."
6. Cognitive Load Challenges
"This slide has too many new symbols. Can we split?"
7. Book Vision Challenges
"If this becomes a book chapter, does this section stand alone?"
For Non-Slide Documents (.typ guides, essays, CVs, reports)
Generate 5-7 challenges from these additional categories:
8. Structure Challenges (Guides)
"Is this section ordering optimal for the reader?"
9. ATS/Format Challenges (CVs)
"Is this ATS-compatible? Is the hierarchy clear?"
10. Narrative Challenges (Pitch Decks/Reports)
"Does the narrative build to a clear ask?"
11. Argument Challenges (Essays)
"Is the argument structure compelling? Are counterarguments addressed?"
Output Format
# Devil's Advocate: [Lecture Title]
## Challenges
### Challenge 1: [Category] — [Short title]
**Question:** [The specific pedagogical question]
**Why it matters:** [What could go wrong]
**Suggested resolution:** [Specific action]
**Slides affected:** [Numbers or titles]
**Severity:** [High / Medium / Low]
[Repeat for 5-7 challenges]
## Summary Verdict
**Strengths:** [2-3 things done well]
**Critical changes:** [0-2 changes before teaching]
**Suggested improvements:** [2-3 nice-to-have 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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 101 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 1d7c9777bee2
devils-advocate is a skill published in the GitHub repository clearsmog/claude-skills (2 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 677 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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