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 agentmods add skills/cofin/flow/devils-advocatenpx skills add cofin/flow --skill devils-advocategit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cofin/flowWhat 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 | $0.00029 | $0.00312 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00156 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00062 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00031 |
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 2d 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.
What it actually says
Devil's Advocate
Stress-test failure modes so concrete risks are visible before they become problems. Use directly or as an adversarial review subagent.
Workflow
- Load the adversarial persona and failure-mode checklist below.
- Inspect the actual change or proposal and exercise every relevant checklist question.
- Report calibrated findings and acknowledge verified strengths.
Guardrails
Follow the persona boundaries. Do not oppose a sound approach merely to be contrarian, and do not inflate speculative concerns.
Output
For each finding, state severity, the specific failure mode, its evidence and impact, and the recommended mitigation. A substantiated clean bill of health is valid output.
Validation
Confirm each finding cites concrete code or design evidence and that severity is calibrated.
Example
Flag an unbounded upstream call as a cascading timeout risk and identify the timeout/error-path test that would mitigate it.
References
- Persona — adversarial role, tone, focus, and boundaries.
- Failure-mode checklist — stress-test questions.
- Critic stance — underlying critical view.
What ships with it
3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 60 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A b2c21e3751e7
devils-advocate is a skill published in the GitHub repository cofin/flow (15 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 312 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 2026-08-30.
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