critic-defender-judge

critic-defender-judge is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/stress-test. It costs 37 tokens per session (763 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured debate workflow in which one agent criticizes a proposal, another defends it, and a judge evaluates the exchange.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for examining artifacts or decisions through repeated rounds of attacks, rebuttals, evidence gathering, confidence checks, and verdict synthesis.
Why use it?
It exposes weaknesses and compares evidence before reaching a verdict, instead of relying on one reviewer's opinion.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for examining artifacts or decisions through repeated rounds of attacks, rebuttals, evidence gathering, confidence checks, and verdict synthesis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/stress-test/critic-defender-judge
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 critic-defender-judge
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 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 763 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 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 $0.00037 $0.00763
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00381
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00076

Measured 12d ago against content hash 881d7a35d3ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

critic-defender-judge 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/critic-defender-judge/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Critic-Defender-Judge Strategy

Classic adversarial triangle: one agent attacks, one defends, one judges.

Method

  1. debate-architect designs attack vectors based on artifact type
  2. debate-critic generates structured attacks using Toulmin model
  3. debate-defender responds with counter-evidence and rebuttals
  4. debate-judge evaluates exchange quality and produces round verdict
  5. Repeat with escalating pressure (dialectical-escalation tactic)

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 → [for each round]:
  debate-critic → debate-defender → debate-judge
  → confidence-calibration → (escalate or terminate)
→ debate-transcript-analysis → verdict-synthesis

Subagents

  • debate-architect (structure design)
  • debate-critic (attack generation)
  • debate-defender (defense generation)
  • debate-judge (round adjudication)
  • confidence-calibration (escalation decision)
  • evidence-scout (when evidence-tournament tactic active)

Available Tactics

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

Tactic When to use
evidence-tournament Tactic: Evidence gathering, cross-examination, and quality judgment. External evidence is collected, presented, challenged, and scored for relevance and reliability.
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.
evidence-scout Searches for external evidence supporting or opposing specific claims. Returns structured evidence with source assessment and relevance scoring.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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 · 87 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 881d7a35d3ae

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critic-defender-judge is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/stress-test (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 763 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 2026-08-31.

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