devils-advocacy

devils-advocacy is a skill for Claude Code from Liberty91LTD/cti-skills. It costs 95 tokens per session (813 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An analysis method that builds the strongest case against a team's current conclusion. It is a structured form of arguing the other side, not an attempt to predict what an attacker would do.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to challenge a high-stakes assessment, test a consensus, or look for blind spots before publishing an analysis.
Why use it?
Teams can become overconfident when everyone accepts the same judgment or when the work was done quickly. This exposes weaknesses and overlooked evidence before a decision or report is released.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to challenge a high-stakes assessment, test a consensus, or look for blind spots before publishing an analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/liberty91ltd/cti-skills/devils-advocacy
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 Liberty91LTD/cti-skills --skill devils-advocacy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Liberty91LTD/cti-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 813 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 $0.00095 $0.00813
Opus 5.5 $0.00038 $0.00325
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00081

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 94be78562c6e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devils-advocacy 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 1mo 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/devils-advocacy/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Devil's Advocacy

A contrarian technique from the CIA Tradecraft Primer. It takes the team's own lead judgment as its input and argues that the judgment is wrong. Its output is a rebuttal.

It is not Red Team Analysis. Red teaming is an imaginative technique: it reasons as the adversary would, from the adversary's position and constraints, and produces adversary courses of action. This pack does not have a Red Team Analysis skill. Until version 2.0 this skill carried that name.

When consensus is strong, this technique deliberately argues the opposing position. The goal is not to be contrarian for its own sake — it's to find genuine weaknesses in the prevailing analysis before they become blind spots.

When to Use

  • Consensus is strong and unchallenged
  • High-stakes assessment (wrong conclusion = significant harm)
  • Analysis has been produced quickly under pressure
  • The same team that collected also analysed (potential tunnel vision)
  • Before publishing a product that will drive significant decisions

Procedure

Step 1: State the Prevailing Judgment

Write the current analytical consensus clearly and completely. Where the judgment rests on graded evidence from /quality-of-information-check, take the claim table with it: the weakest load-bearing claim is the first place to press.

Step 2: Argue Against It (With Maximum Effort)

Deliberately and rigorously construct the best possible case AGAINST the prevailing judgment:

  • What evidence is being overweighted?
  • What alternative explanations exist for the same evidence?
  • What evidence has been ignored or underweighted?
  • What assumptions are vulnerable? (cross-reference with key-assumptions-check)
  • What would a sophisticated adversary do to make us believe the prevailing judgment?
  • What historical cases looked similar but turned out differently?

Step 3: Assess the Opposing Case

Honestly evaluate:

  • Are any of the opposing arguments compelling enough to change the judgment?
  • Do they warrant lowering the confidence level?
  • Do they identify intelligence gaps that should be filled?
  • Do they suggest alternative hypotheses that should be tracked?

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 1mo ago First seen · 83 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 94be78562c6e

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devils-advocacy is a skill published in the GitHub repository Liberty91LTD/cti-skills (36 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 813 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-10-01.

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