adversarial-review

adversarial-review is a skill for Claude Code from oalders/kitchen-sink. It costs 52 tokens per session (2,026 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review process in which two reviewers independently examine the same code or change while competing to find serious, reproducible problems. It requires a defined scope and the conditions the work is supposed to satisfy.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you have a concrete patch, pull request, plan, or other change and can state its intended guarantees and threat model.
Why use it?
Unfocused reviews often produce speculative complaints and feature suggestions instead of real defects. This process filters findings against the agreed scope and discourages padding the issue count.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the kitchen-sink plugin — 9 skills, 20 commands, 12 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when you have a concrete patch, pull request, plan, or other change and can state its intended guarantees and threat model.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oalders/kitchen-sink/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 oalders/kitchen-sink --skill adversarial-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oalders/kitchen-sink

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kitchen-sink, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 20 commands, 12 hooks.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,026 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 $0.00052 $0.02026
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01013
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00405
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00203

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3a93b1eb144a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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.

skills/adversarial-review/SKILL.md · 176 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Adversarial Review

Two subagents review the same work in parallel, competing under an incentive that rewards in-scope defects with working repros and penalizes nit-padding and feature-proposal drift. The skill enforces scope discipline up front and triages findings against scope before presenting them.

The failure mode this skill prevents: without scope, reviewers find "everything" — theoretical contract gaps, "what if a future caller does X" cases, POD nits — and fixes accumulate surface that the next round attacks. Findings count stays high while real signal converges to zero.

When to Use

  • The user asks for an "adversarial review", "review this adversarially", or wants two reviewers competing.
  • You have a concrete patch, PR, plan, or change to review (not an open-ended question).
  • You can already name the invariants the patch claims and its threat model (the precondition Step 1 enforces).

If you can't supply the preamble, this is the wrong skill. Use superpowers:requesting-code-review or /request-review instead — those don't require scope to work.

Required Inputs

The caller MUST provide all of the following. If any is missing, abort using the Step 1 message (which Step 2 also reuses for the round-number case) — do not improvise defaults, do not dispatch with placeholders.

  1. Scope preamble (Step 1): invariants, threat model, out-of-scope list.
  2. Round number (Step 2): positive integer counting this invocation.
  3. Work under review: a patch ref, diff, or file paths.

Step 1: Scope preamble (hard gate)

Before dispatching, the caller MUST supply:

  1. Invariants (1-3, crisp): what does the patch claim to make true?
  2. Threat model: who is the attacker, what's their leverage, what's the impact target?
  3. Out-of-scope list: which kinds of findings are not in scope? (e.g. "feature proposals", "theoretical contract gaps", "documentation wording")

If the caller can't supply these, abort with this exact message:

Read the full file on GitHub · 176 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. 11d ago First seen · 176 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 3a93b1eb144a

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adversarial-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository oalders/kitchen-sink (4 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 2,026 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.