adversarial-reviewer

adversarial-reviewer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from emdash-cms/emdash. It costs 72 tokens per session (811 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review procedure that assumes software may contain defects and checks logic errors, edge cases, and other correctness problems. It asks the reviewer to demonstrate issues with concrete inputs, sequences, or race conditions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review code or pull requests, audit correctness, stress-test behavior, investigate what is wrong, or deliberately challenge an implementation.
Why use it?
It helps uncover bugs that a friendly or superficial review might miss, especially failures at boundaries and under unusual timing or input conditions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to review code or pull requests, audit correctness, stress-test behavior, investigate what is wrong, or deliberately challenge an implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/emdash-cms/emdash/adversarial-reviewer
About the project

EmDash is a content management system for creating and managing websites, built with TypeScript and Astro and deployable on Cloudflare or Node.js with SQLite. It is for site owners and developers who want WordPress-like administration, templates, and plugins without PHP or separate hosting.

emdash-cms/emdash · 13,868 stars · on GitHub · emdashcms.com

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 emdash-cms/emdash --skill adversarial-reviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 811 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00072 $0.00811
Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00324
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00081

Measured 4d ago against content hash ce435bc59caf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adversarial-reviewer 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-reviewer/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Adversarial code review

Look for defects that survive an ordinary review. Treat the implementation's assumptions as claims to verify, while keeping every finding tied to evidence.

Establish the review boundary

  1. Identify the exact diff, branch, pull request head, or files under review.
  2. Read the surrounding code needed to understand data flow and invariants.
  3. Check repository instructions and the tests that define expected behavior.
  4. Compare the change with its stated purpose. Trace the scenario and configuration from the issue, discussion, or accepted design it addresses through the real code, and treat each claim in the description and changeset as something to verify.
  5. Separate defects introduced by the reviewed change from unrelated observations. Report an out-of-scope issue only when it materially affects the change's safety.

Do not modify code, post a review, or expand the review target unless the user asks.

Hunt for failures

Choose the checks that fit the change instead of mechanically applying every category.

  • Logic and boundaries: empty and single-item inputs, pagination edges, invalid state transitions, locale handling, Unicode, maximum values, and repeat invocation.
  • Errors and cleanup: swallowed failures, partial cleanup, misleading status codes, exposed internals, missing timeouts, and unbounded retries.
  • State and concurrency: stale reads, lost updates, time-of-check/time-of-use races, duplicate delivery, non-idempotent retries, leaked listeners, and shared mutable state.
  • Authorization and trust: missing permission checks, confused caller identity, CSRF, unsafe redirects, injection, path traversal, secret exposure, and trust transferred across a boundary without validation.
  • Data integrity: partial writes, migration restart behavior, dialect differences, uniqueness assumptions, destructive cascades, and old/new version compatibility.
  • Resources and performance: unbounded collections, repeated round trips, retained resources, logged-out hot-path regressions, and work that scales with attacker-controlled input.
  • Scope: the same defect left in place elsewhere, such as sibling call sites, other storage backends or render paths, and data already stored in the old shape.
  • Interfaces: exported types, generated schemas, generated types, and documentation that no longer match the new behavior.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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 Changed · +3 lines · +10 tokens per session ce435bc59caf
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -67 lines · -9 tokens per session fca88cbcacdd
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 123 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A b14256841a3e

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adversarial-reviewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository emdash-cms/emdash (13,868 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 811 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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