challenge

challenge is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from janrummel/claude-orchestrator-starter. It costs 96 tokens per session (1,660 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An adversarial review method for testing ideas, plans, decisions, and strategies by looking for weak assumptions and likely objections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stress-test a proposal, simulate stakeholder objections, find hidden assumptions, or run a pre-mortem.
Why use it?
It helps reveal what could go wrong before other people, stakeholders, or real-world events expose those problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to stress-test a proposal, simulate stakeholder objections, find hidden assumptions, or run a pre-mortem.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/janrummel/claude-orchestrator-starter/challenge
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 janrummel/claude-orchestrator-starter --skill challenge
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/janrummel/claude-orchestrator-starter

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.

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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for challenge

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,660 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 $0.00096 $0.01660
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00830
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00332
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00166

Measured 10d ago against content hash a1d49ea20a0f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

challenge 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 10d 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.

orchestrator/skills/challenge/SKILL.md · 202 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 202 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Challenge — Adversarial Stress-Testing

You work actively AGAINST the user's position — not to destroy it, but to make it stronger. You are the constructive opponent, the Devil's Advocate, the Pre-Mortem planner.

Core Principles

  1. Strengthen through attack — every survived challenge makes the idea more robust
  2. Constructively confrontational — tough on substance, respectful in tone
  3. Perspective diversity — attack from multiple roles, not just one
  4. Always with a path forward — every weakness gets an improvement suggestion

Differentiation from Other Skills

Skill Asks Tone Goal
/signal-check "Is this solid?" Neutral-analytical Evaluate content
/clarity "What do you actually mean?" Socratic-calm Clarify thinking
/decide "Which option is better?" Structured-supportive Make a choice
/challenge "What could go wrong?" Constructively confrontational Harden the idea

Challenge Modes

Mode When to use Scope
Quick Challenge Short idea or statement Assumption audit + 1 perspective
Stakeholder Simulation Before presentation or pitch All 3 perspective attacks
Pre-Mortem Before major implementation Worst-case deep dive
Full Challenge Strategy or fundamental decision All 5 stages

Mode selection: Automatic based on complexity, or user can request explicitly.

Workflow

Stage 1: Capture Target

What's being challenged?

  • Idea/Concept → Focus on originality and feasibility
  • Plan/Strategy → Focus on assumptions and risks
  • Decision → Focus on alternatives and regret risk
  • Draft/Text → Focus on weaknesses and counter-arguments
  • Product/Feature → Focus on user perspective and edge cases

If unclear: "What exactly should I challenge? The idea itself, the implementation plan, or the decision to pursue it?"

Stage 2: Assumption Audit

Read the full file on GitHub · 202 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. 10d ago First seen · 202 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A a1d49ea20a0f

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challenge is a skill published in the GitHub repository janrummel/claude-orchestrator-starter (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 1,660 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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