attack

An adversarial review process for an artifact that appears finished. It examines the work through five viewpoints, including a user, competitor, maintainer, auditor, and saboteur.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find usability problems, competitive gaps, maintenance risks, unsupported claims, and inputs or states that could cause failure.
Why use it?
The person who made something is often poor at spotting its weaknesses. Hostile review exposes concrete failure cases before release.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/megaprompting/torque-loop/attack
Any agent
npx skills add Megaprompting/torque-loop --skill attack
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Megaprompting/torque-loop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 756 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00065 $0.00756
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00378
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00076

Measured yesterday against content hash 432e9efef3c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

attack 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 yesterday.

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/attack/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/ratchet:attack — hostile validation

Self-review is theater. The model that built the artifact is the worst judge of it. This command assumes the artifact is wrong and spends its effort proving where.

Step 0 — Load state and target

ratchet status

Identify the artifact under attack (usually the last one in state). For anything that looks finished, delegate the assault to the ratchet-auditor subagent.

The five-voice board

Speak in each voice distinctly. Do not blur them into generic "concerns".

  1. Impatient User — slower, harder, or more confusing than the alternative.
  2. Competitor — where a rival beats this and takes the user.
  3. Maintainer — how this rots or becomes unchangeable in six months.
  4. Auditor — which claims are asserted without evidence.
  5. Saboteur — the specific input or state that makes it fall over.

Rules

  • Every objection is a concrete failure scenario: specific input/state → wrong output or crash. "Might be fragile" is not a finding; "empty input throws at step 3" is.
  • Rank by severity: critical / high / medium / low. Critical = wrong result, data loss, or unusable. Order most-severe first.
  • Demand evidence for every self-serving claim ("robust", "fast", "complete"). Find the contradicting case or mark the claim unproven.
  • Name the smallest patch each finding needs — REMOVE / ADD / CHANGE. You specify the delta; you do not apply it here.
  • Flag fog, not just defects. A finding that says the premise was wrong — a hidden convention, wrong-by-default data, a claim that contradicts the locked target or the unknowns-map — is fog the aperture missed, not merely a bug. Serialize it (ratchet state append assumptions ... with a kill test, or an openLoops entry prefixed fog:), and at two or more such findings recommend /ratchet:map before any further patching: you are patching inside unmapped terrain.

Output contract

VERDICT: ship | patch-then-ship | do-not-ship
FINDINGS (most severe first):
- [CRITICAL] <voice> — <failure scenario> → <REMOVE/ADD/CHANGE ...>
- [HIGH] ...
UNPROVEN CLAIMS:
- "<quote>" — evidence demanded: ...

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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. yesterday First seen · 73 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 432e9efef3c3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

attack is a skill published in the GitHub repository Megaprompting/torque-loop (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 756 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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