adversary

adversary is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Tiltely/lens. It costs 98 tokens per session (785 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review step that attacks a plan, design, or code change by looking for weak decisions and untested assumptions. “Red-teaming” means deliberately trying to find how something could fail.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps critique written plans, proposed designs, and diffs. It checks the plan’s assumptions, weakest choice, and previously identified risks.
Why use it?
It helps expose important risks that ordinary planning may overlook before work begins or a change is committed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the lens plugin — 11 skills, 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/tiltely/lens/adversary
Any agent
npx skills add Tiltely/lens --skill adversary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Tiltely/lens

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install lens, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 785 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 $0.00098 $0.00785
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00392
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00157
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00078

Measured 3d ago against content hash 592edebb942c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adversary 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 3d 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/adversary/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Lens of the Adversary

Read first: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/core/protocol.md and ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/core/dossier.md.

This is a META lens: it examines the PLAN itself for weakness, not a domain perspective. It runs as the mandatory final step of /lens:socratic (and standalone on any plan/diff). Adversarial critique reliably surfaces what normal planning misses — so a plan is not "done" until it survives this pass.

First: suggest plan mode, then WAIT

If the work is substantial enough to deserve a written plan, SUGGEST to the user that they enter Claude Code's plan mode (or otherwise formalize the plan as a written artifact) — and WAIT for their input. Do NOT toggle plan mode yourself. If they decline, or the work is small, critique the plan as it stands.

The red-team battery

Attack the plan from these angles; every finding must be CONCRETE, not generic:

  1. Refutation: name the ONE assumption that, if wrong, breaks the plan. Is it verified or merely assumed? An assumed load-bearing assumption is the top risk.
  2. Weakest decision: of the decisions recorded in the dossier/plan, which is least defensible, and why? What alternative was dismissed too fast?
  3. What discovery missed: re-run the four excavations (protocol.md) AGAINST the plan — a caveat, rabbit hole, blast-radius entry, or platform-matrix gap the plan does not address. This is where socratic plans most often leak.
  4. Reversibility & blast radius: what here is hard to undo, and is the plan treating it with the caution it deserves? Who/what breaks if this ships wrong?
  5. "First thing that worked" test: is this the best plan, or the first coherent one? Name one genuinely different approach and say why it lost — or didn't.

On substantial work, fan out: run the angles as independent adversarial passes (or read-only subagents) so no single line of attack dominates, then merge.

Disposition — every surviving finding

Each finding the plan cannot already answer becomes exactly one of:

  • revise — change a decision in the dossier (state the new decision);
  • reopen — spawn a frontier branch (protocol.md) and hand back to discovery;
  • accept — record as an explicit accepted risk, with an owner, in the dossier. Never let a real finding evaporate as "noted".

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. 3d ago First seen · 60 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 592edebb942c

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adversary is a skill published in the GitHub repository Tiltely/lens (5 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 785 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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