pushback

pushback is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Ovid/paad. It costs 72 tokens per session (128 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-coding review checklist for specifications, requirements documents, and design plans. It examines whether the proposed work is clear, feasible, focused, and consistent with the existing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to challenge a large or uncertain plan and identify questions or risks that should be resolved before coding.
Why use it?
It helps catch vague requirements, unrelated features, contradictions, security gaps, and missing error handling before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to challenge a large or uncertain plan and identify questions or risks that should be resolved before coding.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ovid/paad/pushback
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 Ovid/paad --skill pushback
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ovid/paad

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 pushback

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ovid/paad/pushback/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ovid/paad/pushback)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for pushback

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 128 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: 1 finding, 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 Agent Snooping · line 9
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 $0.00072 $0.00128
Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00051
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00026
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00013

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 62114160e15f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pushback 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 1mo 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.

kiro_and_antigravity/skills/.agent/skills/pushback/SKILL.md · 12 lines

What it actually says

Spec Pushback (Antigravity Wrapper)

This is a project-specific skill. The detailed checklist and procedures are in: .kiro/skills/pushback/SKILL.md

Please refer to that file for the full criteria.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 12 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 62114160e15f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pushback is a skill published in the GitHub repository Ovid/paad (138 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 128 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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