red-team-pressure-test

red-team-pressure-test is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jdpalumbo2/workbench. It costs 45 tokens per session (802 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An adversarial review of a plan, pitch, contract, or decision before it is presented or shipped. It deliberately looks for gaps, loopholes, and weak assumptions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to challenge high-stakes plans, client-facing proposals, contracts, strategies, and production decisions before committing to them.
Why use it?
It exposes problems that the person who created the proposal may overlook. Finding them early reduces the chance that a client, stakeholder, or real-world failure finds them first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to challenge high-stakes plans, client-facing proposals, contracts, strategies, and production decisions before committing to them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jdpalumbo2/workbench/red-team-pressure-test
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jdpalumbo2/workbench --skill red-team-pressure-test
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jdpalumbo2/workbench

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 802 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 $0.00045 $0.00802
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00401
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00160
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00080

Measured 8d ago against content hash 10472d5eb0c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

red-team-pressure-test 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 8d 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/red-team-pressure-test/SKILL.md · 42 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Red Team Pressure Test

Overview

The work isn't finished until someone has tried to destroy it. Dispatch an adversary whose only job is to find every gap, loophole, and weak assumption — ruthlessly, not softened.

When to Use

  • About to present a plan, launch something, or defend a position, and want to hear every gap from a fresh source before someone in the room finds it.
  • High-stakes decision where being wrong is expensive: a contract, a client-facing plan, a change to a production automation.

Not for: quick low-stakes checks — the point of this skill is genuine independence, which costs a subagent dispatch. Don't reach for it on something that doesn't warrant that cost. Also not for a code change or build plan that already runs through a dedicated review lane (a clodex/TRIP-style pipeline, a codex-plan-review/codex-code-review pass) — those exist precisely so code doesn't need this skill on top. This is for the plans and decisions with no other adversarial pass built in: strategy, pitches, contracts, anything client-facing or belief-shaped rather than code-shaped.

Core Pattern

Self-critique from the same context that produced the plan is weak — it's anchored on the reasoning that already convinced itself the plan was good. Real adversarial pressure needs a fresh, independent pass with no investment in the plan succeeding.

  1. State the plan or claim in full, exactly as it would be presented, with no framing that pre-defends it.
  2. Dispatch a subagent via the Agent tool with an explicitly adversarial brief: its only goal is to find every gap, loophole, and weak assumption, and to be ruthless about it — not to also list what's good. Give it the plan verbatim; don't summarize it into your own words first, or it'll end up interrogating your paraphrase instead of the plan.
  3. Return the subagent's findings as a structured list — gaps, weak assumptions, failure points — not folded into a diplomatic paragraph. If a finding is weak or a stretch, keep it in the list rather than pre-filtering; the person using this decides what to act on.

Read the full file on GitHub · 42 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 8d ago First seen · 42 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 10472d5eb0c2

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red-team-pressure-test is a skill published in the GitHub repository jdpalumbo2/workbench (1 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 802 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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