adversarial-debate-truthseeking

adversarial-debate-truthseeking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine. It costs 99 tokens per session (1,369 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A truth-testing debate process that restates a claim in a testable form, tries to disprove it, and classifies the result as broken, supported, or impossible to test.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to make claims more falsifiable, find observations or computations that could disprove them, and determine whether the available evidence supports them.
Why use it?
It separates evidence from persuasive argument and identifies claims that cannot be meaningfully checked.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to make claims more falsifiable, find observations or computations that could disprove them, and determine whether the available evidence supports them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/adversarial-debate-truthseeking
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 yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine --skill adversarial-debate-truthseeking
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 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,369 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 $0.00099 $0.01369
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00685
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00274
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00137

Measured 11d ago against content hash d2ce46e359fd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adversarial-debate-truthseeking 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 11d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/adversarial-debate-truthseeking/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Adversarial Debate (Truth-Seeking Variant)

A retuning of classic critic-defender-judge debate. The classic version asks "which side argued better?" and outputs a survival/resilience verdict — a persuasiveness metric. That is wrong for research: a claim can win a debate by being slippery (un-pin-down-able) while being scientifically empty. This variant changes the roles and the judge's job so the debate produces a falsifiability classification, not a winner.

What changed from the original (multiagent-debate)

Element Original (publication) This variant (truth-seeking)
Defender's job Make the claim look strong / survive State the claim in its MOST falsifiable form — maximize what it forbids
Critic's job Find weaknesses to score against Find one concrete observation/computation that would refute it
Judge's verdict Winner + resilience score Bucket: BROKEN / CORROBORATED / UNFALSIFIABLE
Success Artifact survives We learn whether the claim is even testable, and if so whether it holds
Slippery claim Wins (un-attackable) Flagged UNFALSIFIABLE (worst outcome)

Roles

Defender (steelman-to-falsifiable)

The defender does NOT defend the claim as comfortable or vague. The defender's sole job is to restate the claim in the sharpest, most-forbidding form that is still faithful to what we actually meant. A claim of the form "the unification is elegant" is not a defendable form — it forbids nothing. "Under intervention X the law collapses to form A and NOT form B" is — it stakes out something an observation could contradict. If the defender cannot produce a forbidding form, that itself is the verdict (UNFALSIFIABLE) — the defender must report this honestly rather than retreat to vagueness.

Critic (refuter)

The critic does NOT accumulate debating points. The critic tries to produce ONE of: (a) a counterexample (a case the claim forbids but that occurs / could occur), (b) a derivation error (the claim does not follow from its stated premises), (c) a demonstration that the claim's "forbidden" set is empty (it forbids nothing → UNFALSIFIABLE). The critic must commit to a specific refuter before arguing, to prevent goalpost-shifting.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 11d ago First seen · 79 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A d2ce46e359fd

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adversarial-debate-truthseeking is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine (456 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 1,369 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 2026-08-30.

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