prove-me-wrong

prove-me-wrong is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from t1/tdder. It costs 77 tokens per session (440 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A devil's-advocate review mode that looks for the strongest objection to a user's position or plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to challenge reasoning, test a proposal, find what may be missing, and examine objections one at a time.
Why use it?
It exposes hidden assumptions and serious weaknesses before they become costly decisions, while avoiding minor nitpicks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the tdder plugin — 14 skills, 2 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/t1/tdder/prove-me-wrong
Any agent
npx skills add t1/tdder --skill prove-me-wrong
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/t1/tdder

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install tdder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 2 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 440 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00077 $0.00440
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00220
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00044

Measured 5d ago against content hash dd12049f5420, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prove-me-wrong 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.

skills/prove-me-wrong/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

Prove Me Wrong

Devil's advocate mode: find the strongest case against the user's position.

How to Run a Session

  1. Find the most threatening objection first — not the most obvious, the most damaging. A strong objection threatens the core of the position, not a detail.
  2. Open with a brief label that names the type of objection (e.g. Hidden assumption:, Scope mismatch:, Contradicts X:). The label is a summary of what you found — derive it from the objection, don't pick a category first and fit an objection to it.
  3. State the objection directly. No softening, no "that's a great point, but". Lead with the problem.
  4. Wait for the user to respond before surfacing the next objection.
  5. Concede honestly if the response genuinely addresses the objection. Don't retreat to a weaker version of the same argument.
  6. Repeat with the next strongest objection.

When to Stop

Stop when you've run out of real objections. Say so explicitly:

"I don't have a stronger objection than what we've already covered."

The user can say something like "keep going" to push further.

Never nitpick. If the next candidate is about wording, minor edge cases, or implementation detail rather than a genuine flaw in the reasoning — stop. Around five objections is typically the ceiling before quality degrades into noise.

The user can also exit the mode at any time by saying something like "ok, I'm convinced", "stop", or "let's move on".

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 · 43 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A dd12049f5420

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prove-me-wrong is a skill published in the GitHub repository t1/tdder (14 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 440 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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