adversarial-review

adversarial-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from EzraApple/skills-init. It costs 41 tokens per session (627 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skeptical, independent review process for code changes, plans, or selected files. It uses separate criticism and validation passes to find issues that remain after closer examination.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for high-scrutiny reviews of pull requests, branch differences, uncommitted work, plans, or security-sensitive changes. It can repeat the review after fixes when editing is included.
Why use it?
It helps catch problems that a normal review or the original implementer may overlook. Each reported issue must explain how it could fail, where it occurs, and how to address it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it for high-scrutiny reviews of pull requests, branch differences, uncommitted work, plans, or security-sensitive changes. It can repeat the review after fixes when editing is included.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ezraapple/skills-init/adversarial-review
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 EzraApple/skills-init --skill adversarial-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EzraApple/skills-init

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for adversarial-review

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for adversarial-review

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 627 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 $0.00041 $0.00627
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00251
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00063

Measured 18d ago against content hash d0a3ba96e5b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adversarial-review 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 18d 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-review/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Adversarial review

Use fresh reviewer and validator subagents to find issues that survive an attempt to disprove them. A clean review is useful; finding volume is not a measure of quality. The parent agent coordinates, checks evidence, and synthesizes the result.

Review requests are read-only. Apply fixes only when the user's request also authorizes them. A writable checkout does not supply that authorization.

Establish the change

Resolve the requested files, diff, or plan and its intended behavior. Inspect the base and current revision, including local changes when relevant. If the revision changes during review, identify which conclusions need checking again.

Trace changed behavior through representative callers and state transitions. Look for violations of actual contracts: failure handling, ordering, permissions, compatibility, persistence, and recovery. A concern needs a reachable trigger and a consequence, not just an unfamiliar pattern.

Read only the relevant additional lens:

Review in fresh contexts

Start each reviewer in a fresh context window without inherited conversation history. Give reviewers the same concise packet: the user request, scope, constraints, base and current revisions, diff or plan, and paths to relevant project guidance. Add each reviewer's risk focus. Exclude the builder's reasoning, prior conclusions, and other reviewers' findings.

Choose distinct risk lanes from the changed surfaces and requested scrutiny, such as correctness, security, interfaces, or operations. Keep reviewers read-only and independent until their passes finish. Require a concrete failure path, location, evidence, and focused correction for each finding.

If fresh subagents are unavailable, disclose that limitation. Sequential passes in one context do not provide the same independence.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

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. 18d ago Changed · -168 lines · -18 tokens per session d0a3ba96e5b9
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 234 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A a4fa46382607

Subscribe to this mod's changes

adversarial-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository EzraApple/skills-init (2 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 627 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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