adversarial-review

adversarial-review is a skill for Claude Code from VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile. It costs 56 tokens per session (3,597 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A seven-step review of a resume and cover letter for one job. Several reviewers independently try to find reasons to reject the application, then a hiring-manager review and a final challenge review combine their findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it on a role folder containing a resume and job description before submitting an application. It checks requirements, automated screening, reader reactions, the applicant pool, hiring-manager judgment, and opposing arguments.
Why use it?
It exposes weaknesses that a single review may miss and separates the quality of the materials from the chance of success through different application routes, such as a referral or a cold online submission.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; positional $N argument.

Part of the slushpile plugin — 11 skills, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it on a role folder containing a resume and job description before submitting an application. It checks requirements, automated screening, reader reactions, the applicant pool, hiring-manager judgment, and opposing arguments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vonterraproject501c3/slushpile/adversarial-review
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 VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile --skill adversarial-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install slushpile, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 8 agents.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,597 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 $0.00056 $0.03597
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01799
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00719
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00360

Measured 12d ago against content hash ff5b5ab587b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adversarial-review 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 12d 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/adversarial-review/SKILL.md · 257 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 257 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Adversarial Review

Seven agents try to reject the application before a recruiter gets the chance.

The output is deliberately not a single yes or no. The same materials convert at wildly different rates through a cold portal submission than through a referral, and a review that collapses those into one verdict is telling the user something false in a format that sounds authoritative.

Announce at start: "Running adversarial review for $ROLE. Extracting materials, launching five specialists in parallel."

Arguments:

  • $1 — path to a role folder containing at minimum a resume and job_description.md

Example:

/slushpile:adversarial-review applications/Acme/Engineering/Staff-SRE

The Pipeline

# Agent Model When
1 slushpile-triage-screener sonnet parallel
2 slushpile-requirements-analyst sonnet parallel
3 slushpile-ats-simulator sonnet parallel
4 slushpile-fatigued-reader sonnet parallel
5 slushpile-pool-analyst opus parallel
6 slushpile-hiring-manager opus after 1-5
7 slushpile-contrarian opus after 6

Stages 1 through 5 run concurrently. Dispatch them in a single message with five tool calls.

On a harness without subagent dispatch: run the seven personas sequentially in one context, reading each agent definition from the plugin's agents/ directory and adopting it in turn. Write each report out before starting the next, and do not let a later persona see an earlier one's conclusion except where the pipeline says it should — the hiring manager gets all five specialist reports, the contrarian gets everything, and the five specialists get nothing from each other. Contamination between the parallel stages is the main thing that degrades in a sequential run, and it degrades quietly.

Why It Is Shaped This Way

Four failure modes drove the design. Each maps to a stage.

Single-perspective sycophancy. Every reviewer in a naive pipeline works for the candidate. None of them models the queue. The pool analyst exists to force comparative reasoning: not "are these materials good" but "are they better than the other seventy applications this week."

Read the full file on GitHub · 257 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. 12d ago First seen · 257 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A ff5b5ab587b1

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adversarial-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile (15 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 3,597 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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