challenge

challenge is a skill for Claude Code from oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,117 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A rigorous review mode for examining Ecto database changes, LiveView events, OTP designs, and pull requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps developers inspect implementation details, demand verification, and assess whether changes are ready to merge.
Why use it?
It challenges assumptions and looks for bugs, missing tests, race conditions, and unsafe production behavior before approval.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the phx plugin — 50 skills, 26 agents, 10 hooks shipped together

Good fit It helps developers inspect implementation details, demand verification, and assess whether changes are ready to merge.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix/challenge
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 oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix --skill challenge
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install phx, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 50 skills, 26 agents, 10 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for challenge

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix/challenge.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix/challenge)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix/challenge"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix/challenge.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,117 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 medium

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 →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 14
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 14
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00034 $0.01117
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00558
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00112

Measured 5d ago against content hash 84961bd496d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

challenge 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 5d 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:

plugins/elixir-phoenix/skills/challenge/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Challenge Mode Reviews

Rigorous, critical review patterns inspired by Boris Cherny's "Grill me" approach. Push beyond first solutions to ensure quality.

Iron Laws - Never Violate These

  1. No approval without verification - Don't approve until all concerns addressed
  2. Assume bugs exist - Look for edge cases, race conditions, missing handlers
  3. Question everything - Even "obvious" code can hide issues
  4. Demand proof - Ask for tests, show state transitions, verify behavior

Adversarial Lenses (Apply to ALL Modes)

  1. "What Would Break This?" — Production failure modes under load, during deploys, with unexpected data
  2. "Assumption Stress Test" — List every assumption; which are most fragile?
  3. "Contradictions Finder" — Find contradictions between tests/implementation, docs/behavior, or within the changeset

Challenge Modes

Ecto Challenge (/phx:challenge ecto)

Grill the developer on database changes:

Migration Safety

  • Will this migration lock the table in production?
  • What happens to existing records without the new field?
  • Is the migration reversible?
  • Are there any unsafe operations (column removal, type change)?

Query Performance

  • Have you introduced any N+1 queries?
  • Are there missing indexes for new WHERE clauses?
  • Will this query scale with data growth?

Schema Integrity

  • Are all constraints enforced at database level?
  • What happens during rolling deployment (old code, new schema)?
  • Are foreign key cascades correct?

Backward Compatibility

  • Will old code work during deployment?
  • Are there any breaking changes to the context API?

LiveView Challenge (/phx:challenge liveview)

Prove the LiveView handles all cases:

Event Coverage

  • List every handle_event clause and expected socket state
  • What happens if socket assigns are missing when event fires?
  • Are there race conditions between user events and server pushes?

PubSub Handling

  • List every handle_info clause and when it's triggered
  • Do all PubSub subscriptions have corresponding handlers?
  • What happens if a message arrives before mount completes?

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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. 5d ago First seen · 150 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 84961bd496d7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

challenge is a skill published in the GitHub repository oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix (541 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,117 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

elderly-ui-audit

A code review for making websites and mobile apps easier for older people to use, based on Chinese government accessibility guidelines.

XuYuting133/elderly-ui-audit · 59 tokens

fable-super-audit

Comprehensive, rubric-driven, whole-repository code audit that ends in a prioritized improvement plan with an executive health grade. Built to run in a premium, time-limited model session (Fable): it dispatches cheaper Opus/Sonnet subagents to explore the codebase and pre-build a project-tailored audit checklist, then…

madisonrickert/claude-skills · 317 tokens

cc-codex-review

A second-opinion workflow that sends uncertain questions and important technical decisions to Codex for review alongside Claude Code.

codingSamss/all-my-ai-needs · 100 tokens

skill-pr-review

Comprehensive code review for pull requests using parallel multi-agent analysis. Audits CLAUDE.md compliance, checks for bugs, analyzes git history, reviews comments, and filters by confidence score. Use when reviewing a GitHub PR, mentions "code review", "review this PR", or "/code-review".

saitarrun/Sdlc-ai-workflow · 65 tokens

improve-codebase-architecture

Find deepening opportunities in a codebase, informed by the domain language in CONTEXT.md and the decisions in docs/adr/. Use when the user wants to improve architecture, find refactoring opportunities, consolidate tightly-coupled modules, or make a codebase more testable and AI-navigable.

saitarrun/Sdlc-ai-workflow · 68 tokens

odoo-code-review

Use when reviewing Odoo code — yours before commit, Claude's after generation, or a teammate's PSDU PR. Catches shape-of-bad-code issues that lint won't, plus customer-readiness gaps. Invoke before claiming Odoo work is done.

omas-odoo/odoo-superpowers · 56 tokens