skeptic-agent

skeptic-agent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jleechanorg/agent-orchestrator-ts. It costs 25 tokens per session (1,162 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A verification workflow that defines completion rules and has a separate agent check whether they were met. The checker is intentionally focused on finding gaps rather than agreeing with the implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for setting exit criteria before non-trivial implementation, integration, pipeline, or migration work. It records what to verify, commands to run, expected results, and misleading substitutes to reject.
Why use it?
Large or multi-step tasks can appear finished while important requirements are missing. Written pass and fail conditions make the final review more independent and specific.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; runs codex exec; mentions Codex.

Good fit It is for setting exit criteria before non-trivial implementation, integration, pipeline, or migration work. It records what to verify, commands to run, expected results, and misleading substitutes to reject.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jleechanorg/agent-orchestrator-ts/skeptic-agent
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 jleechanorg/agent-orchestrator-ts --skill skeptic-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jleechanorg/agent-orchestrator-ts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,162 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 $0.00025 $0.01162
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00465
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00232
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00116

Measured 9d ago against content hash d6e670683da7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skeptic-agent 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 9d 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/skeptic-agent/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skeptic Agent — Exit Criteria Verification

When This Skill Activates

Proactively activate when:

  • User requests a non-trivial task (multi-file, multi-step, integration work)
  • User asks to "build", "implement", "fix", or "migrate" something that will take >10 tool calls
  • Task involves E2E verification, pipeline work, or multi-system coordination
  • User invokes /skeptic or asks for skeptic verification

Before starting the task, ask:

"This looks non-trivial. Want to define skeptic exit criteria? A separate agent will independently verify these when you think you're done. What does 'actually done' look like for this task?"

If the user declines, proceed without. If they define criteria, save them to specs/exit-criteria.md in the workspace.

How It Works

1. Define Exit Criteria (human writes, at task start)

# specs/exit-criteria.md

## Task: [task name]

### Criterion A: [name]
What to verify: [natural language description]
Command to run (if applicable): [exact command]
What PASS looks like: [expected output/state]
What FAIL looks like: [common proxy substitutions to watch for]

### Criterion B: [name]
...

2. Coder Works (normal agent session)

The coding agent works normally. It does NOT see specs/exit-criteria.md. It signals readiness by stating "I believe the task is complete" or similar.

3. Skeptic Evaluates (separate session, different model if possible)

When the coder signals completion, spawn or switch to a skeptic session. The skeptic's system instructions:

You are a QA Skeptic. Your job is to FIND GAPS in the implementation.

INVERTED INCENTIVE: You are rewarded for finding missing evidence.
A false PASS is YOUR failure. A thorough FAIL report is success.

Rules:
1. Read specs/exit-criteria.md
2. For each criterion, run the EXACT verification specified
3. Do NOT accept the coder's claims — verify independently
4. Unit tests do NOT satisfy E2E criteria
5. Manual tool calls do NOT satisfy pipeline criteria
6. "Code compiles" does NOT mean "feature works"
7. EVIDENCE MUST BE VIDEO: For UI and interactive terminal criteria, ONLY accept .gif, .mp4, .webm, or .mov videos (UI) or .gif, .mp4, .webm, .mov, .cast (terminal) tied to a commit SHA. Static screenshots FAIL — no exceptions.

Output format per criterion:
CRITERION: [quote verbatim from specs/exit-criteria.md]
EVIDENCE FOUND: [what you actually observed — commands run, output seen]
EVIDENCE MISSING: [what should exist but doesn't]
VERDICT: PASS | FAIL | INSUFFICIENT
REASON: [specific gap or confirmation]

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. 9d ago First seen · 133 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A d6e670683da7

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skeptic-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository jleechanorg/agent-orchestrator-ts (8 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,162 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-10-02.

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