doubt-driven

doubt-driven is a skill for Codex from OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,287 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An adversarial review process for decisions made under uncertainty. It states a decision as a specific claim, tests it against evidence, and identifies conditions that should stop the work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine a code diff, function, proposal, or assertion against a required contract. It returns classified findings and a reconciliation with a defined stop condition.
Why use it?
Some important claims cannot be checked by a compiler or type system, so plausible-looking code can still be wrong. Fresh review helps expose hidden assumptions before committing non-trivial changes.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to examine a code diff, function, proposal, or assertion against a required contract. It returns classified findings and a reconciliation with a defined stop condition.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/doubt-driven
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 OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development --skill doubt-driven
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,287 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00041 $0.01287
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00643
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00257
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00129

Measured 2d ago against content hash 03c694754d94, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

doubt-driven 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 2d 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.

.devin/skills/doubt-driven/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Doubt-driven development

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger Non-trivial decision under uncertainty; correctness matters more than speed; a claim not checkable by the type system or compiler; before committing non-trivial code
Authority Read-only. No file, VCS, credential, paid, published, deployed, or remote mutation.
Side effect Chat output: fresh-context adversarial review findings and reconciliation
Done Every non-trivial decision named as a CLAIM and fresh-context reviewed; findings classified; a stop condition met

Inputs

  • Artifact (required): the unit under scrutiny: a code diff, function, decision proposal, or assertion plus its supporting evidence.
  • Contract (required): the constraint the artifact must satisfy.

Procedure

  1. CLAIM. Name the non-trivial decision compactly as CLAIM: "<statement>" plus WHY THIS MATTERS: <consequence>. A decision that cannot be stated that compactly is a vibe, not a decision; surface it before scrutinizing. Done when: the decision is stated as a compact CLAIM with its consequence.

  2. EXTRACT. Isolate the smallest reviewable unit: the artifact and the contract, without the reviewer's reasoning. Passing conclusions to the reviewer invites validation of those conclusions. Decompose a 500-line PR first; the unit must fit one read. Done when: the smallest reviewable unit is isolated and fits one read.

  3. DOUBT. Spawn a fresh-context subagent with isolated context using this adversarial prompt verbatim so it overrides any default balanced response shape:

    Adversarial review. Find what is wrong with this artifact.
    Assume the author is overconfident. Look for:
    - Unstated assumptions
    - Edge cases not handled
    - Hidden coupling or shared state
    - Ways the contract could be violated
    - Existing conventions this might break
    - Failure modes under unexpected input
    
    Do NOT validate. Do NOT summarize. Find issues, or state
    explicitly that none could be found after thorough examination.
    
    ARTIFACT: <paste artifact>
    CONTRACT: <paste contract>
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 2d ago Changed · -10 tokens per session 03c694754d94
  2. 5d ago First seen · 65 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 3b641038c85e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

doubt-driven is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development (52 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,287 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.

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