adversarial-review

adversarial-review is a skill for Codex from Mizoreww/awesome-claude-code-config. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,194 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review process that asks one to three reviewers running a different AI model to challenge a piece of work from several critical viewpoints. It returns a combined verdict without changing the reviewed files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you explicitly request an adversarial review, such as a skeptical, architectural, or minimalist challenge to recent changes or a plan.
Why use it?
Using a different model and opposing review lenses can expose gaps, weak assumptions, and unnecessary complexity that the original author or model missed.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: runs codex exec. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it when you explicitly request an adversarial review, such as a skeptical, architectural, or minimalist challenge to recent changes or a plan.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mizoreww/awesome-claude-code-config/adversarial-review
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 Mizoreww/awesome-claude-code-config --skill adversarial-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mizoreww/awesome-claude-code-config

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,194 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Excessive Agency · line 57
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
  • high Excessive Agency · line 66
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00056 $0.01194
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00597
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00119

Measured 11d ago against content hash 0328e1b43780, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adversarial-review 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 11d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/adversarial-review/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Adversarial Review

Spawn reviewers on the opposite model to challenge work. Reviewers attack from distinct lenses grounded in brain principles. The deliverable is a synthesized verdict — do NOT make changes.

Hard constraint: Reviewers MUST run via the opposite model's CLI (codex exec or claude -p). Do NOT use subagents, the Agent tool, or any internal delegation mechanism as reviewers — those run on your own model, which defeats the purpose.

Step 1 — Load Principles

Read references/reviewer-lenses.md. The three lenses (Skeptic, Architect, Minimalist) and their mapped principles govern reviewer judgments. If a brain/principles.md file exists, also read it and follow any [[wikilink]] references for additional principles.

Step 2 — Determine Scope and Intent

Identify what to review from context (recent diffs, referenced plans, user message).

Determine the intent — what the author is trying to achieve. This is critical: reviewers challenge whether the work achieves the intent well, not whether the intent is correct. State the intent explicitly before proceeding.

Assess change size:

Size Threshold Reviewers
Small < 50 lines, 1–2 files 1 (Skeptic)
Medium 50–200 lines, 3–5 files 2 (Skeptic + Architect)
Large 200+ lines or 5+ files 3 (Skeptic + Architect + Minimalist)

Read references/reviewer-lenses.md for lens definitions.

Step 3 — Detect Model and Spawn Reviewers

Create a temp directory for reviewer output:

REVIEW_DIR=$(mktemp -d /tmp/adversarial-review.XXXXXX)

Determine which model you are, then spawn reviewers on the opposite:

If you are Claude → spawn Codex reviewers via codex exec:

codex exec --skip-git-repo-check -o "$REVIEW_DIR/skeptic.md" "prompt" 2>/dev/null

Use --profile edit only if the reviewer needs to run tests. Default to read-only. Run with run_in_background: true, monitor via TaskOutput with block: true, timeout: 600000.

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 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. 11d ago First seen · 141 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 0328e1b43780

Subscribe to this mod's changes

adversarial-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mizoreww/awesome-claude-code-config (259 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,194 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 2026-08-30.