adversarial-debate-protocol

adversarial-debate-protocol is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine. It costs 30 tokens per session (500 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured debate process with an advocate, a critic, and a judge who assesses the arguments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build the strongest case for a position, challenge it with several objections, and decide whether to accept, reject, or revise it.
Why use it?
It exposes weak reasoning and confirmation bias before a decision is accepted.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to build the strongest case for a position, challenge it with several objections, and decide whether to accept, reject, or revise it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/adversarial-debate-protocol
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine --skill adversarial-debate-protocol
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 500 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 $0.00030 $0.00500
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00250
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00050

Measured 10d ago against content hash 23dc71535a7e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adversarial-debate-protocol 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 10d 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-debate-protocol/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Adversarial Debate Protocol

A formal three-role debate structure ensuring decisions survive rigorous adversarial challenge. The protocol assigns distinct roles (advocate, critic, judge) to prevent confirmation bias and ensure intellectual honesty.

Stages

  1. Advocate Construction — Build the strongest possible case for the position under debate
  2. Critic Attack — Attack the advocate's case from multiple angles with severity ratings
  3. Judge Verdict — Impartial assessment of advocate case vs critic attacks, rendering ACCEPT/REJECT/REVISE
  4. Iteration (if REVISE) — Advocate revises case, critic re-attacks, judge re-evaluates

Available SOPs

SOP Role Purpose
advocate-construction Advocate Build strongest case for position
critic-attack Critic Attack the case with rated arguments
judge-verdict Judge Render impartial verdict

Execution Guidance

  • Minimum 2 rounds before accepting ACCEPT verdict
  • Critic must produce >= 3 distinct attack arguments per round
  • Judge must address every critic argument explicitly
  • If judge verdict is REVISE, advocate must address specific weaknesses identified
  • Maximum 4 rounds before escalating to strategy level

Minimum Yield

  • Advocate case with explicit evidence and reasoning
  • Critic attacks with severity ratings (HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW)
  • Judge verdict (ACCEPT/REJECT/REVISE) with point-by-point reasoning
  • Conditions for acceptance (if ACCEPT)
  • Required modifications (if REVISE)

Available SOPs

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

SOP When to use
advocate-construction Construct the strongest possible case for a rejected candidate or counter-position.
critic-attack Attack an advocate's case with multiple arguments rated by severity.
judge-verdict Render an impartial verdict on advocate case vs critic attacks with explicit reasoning.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. 10d ago First seen · 61 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 23dc71535a7e

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adversarial-debate-protocol is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine (449 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 500 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 2026-08-30.

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