adversarial-escalation

adversarial-escalation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/stress-test. It costs 31 tokens per session (698 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of adversarial-escalation, Apache-2.0.

A debate strategy that increases the difficulty of challenges from surface claims to underlying assumptions. It uses several debating roles to design attacks, defend answers, judge responses, and assess confidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stress-test proposals, reasoning, or conclusions through progressively harder debate rounds.
Why use it?
It tests whether an argument remains sound when evidence, logic, and basic assumptions are challenged in stages.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to stress-test proposals, reasoning, or conclusions through progressively harder debate rounds.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/stress-test/adversarial-escalation
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/stress-test --skill adversarial-escalation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yogsoth-ai/stress-test

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 698 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.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00031 $0.00698
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00349
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00070

Measured 8d ago against content hash ec886668ae1f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adversarial-escalation 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 8d 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

This is a copy

100% identical to adversarial-escalation — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/adversarial-escalation/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Adversarial Escalation Strategy

Progressive pressure: escalate attack sophistication based on defender performance.

Method

  1. debate-architect designs escalation ladder (surface → structural → foundational)
  2. Level 1: debate-critic probes surface claims and evidence quality
  3. confidence-calibration measures defender resilience
  4. Level 2: debate-critic attacks structural coherence and logical dependencies
  5. Level 3: debate-critic challenges foundational assumptions and paradigm fit
  6. Each level only reached if defender survives previous level

Budget Table

Parameter S M L
Debate rounds 4 8 12
Participating agents 3 5 8
Coverage dimensions 3 5 7
External evidence searches 2 5 10

Orchestration

debate-architect → [design escalation ladder]
→ [for each level]:
    debate-critic (level-appropriate attack)
    → debate-defender → debate-judge
    → confidence-calibration
    → (escalate if survived, terminate if collapsed)
→ debate-transcript-analysis → verdict-synthesis

Subagents

  • debate-architect (escalation design)
  • debate-critic (multi-level attacks)
  • debate-defender (responses)
  • debate-judge (level adjudication)
  • confidence-calibration (escalation trigger)

Available Tactics

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

Tactic When to use
stress-test-dialectical-escalation Tactic: Progressive debate escalation based on confidence thresholds. Each round increases attack sophistication until defender collapses or proves resilient.

Available SOPs

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

SOP When to use
confidence-calibration Calibrates confidence scores based on debate progression. Determines whether to escalate, continue, or terminate based on cumulative evidence.
debate-architect Designs debate structure based on artifact type — selects attack vectors, assigns perspectives, determines escalation ladder, and configures round parameters.
debate-critic Generates structured criticism from attack stance using Toulmin model. Produces claims, grounds, warrants, and rebuttals targeting artifact weaknesses.
debate-defender Responds to attacks with counter-evidence and counter-arguments. Defends artifact using evidence, clarification, and rebuttal while acknowledging valid criticisms.
debate-judge Evaluates debate exchanges, adjudicates argument quality, and produces round verdicts with confidence scores and reasoning.

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 8d ago First seen · 85 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A ec886668ae1f

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adversarial-escalation is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/stress-test (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 698 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to adversarial-escalation, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.