wick-red-team SKILL.md skillA

wick-red-team from agoradynamics/wick is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add agoradynamics/wick/wick-red-team@git:20260826.3841eef

Pins git:20260826.3841eef in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
agoradynamics/wick
Path
.claude/skills/wick-red-team/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260826.3841eef, committed Aug 26, 2026
First version recorded
Apr 21, 2026
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Repository stars
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Adversarial critique of a plan, design, or decision — produce the 5 sharpest criticisms a hostile-smart opponent would raise. Complement to /steelman. Use before committing to a major decision or when you suspect you're too attached to a plan.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Wick — Red Team

*Updated: 2026-04-20 · first written 2026-04-20*

If `/steelman` is "construct the strongest version of a position you disagree with," `wick-red-team` is the inverse: **take a position you're committed to, find its weakest seams, attack them.**

## When to invoke

- Before committing to a major decision
- When you suspect you're too attached to a plan
- After the team has reached consensus (consensus is often the moment to red-team)
- Before presenting externally to a skeptical or hostile audience

## What Wick does

Adopt a hostile-but-smart perspective. For the given plan/design/decision:

1. What's the strongest objection a **domain expert** would raise?
2. What's the most damaging **failure mode** if it unfolds as intended?
3. What **load-bearing assumption** is most vulnerable to being false?
4. What's the simplest way this gets **leaked, gamed, or broken**?
5. What would a **smart competitor** do to exploit this?

Produce 5 critiques, ranked by severity. For each, offer a mitigation — or name the trade-off explicitly as an accepted risk.

## Output format

```
## Critique 1 — [severity: critical / high / medium]
**Attack:** [the specific flaw]
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add agoradynamics/wick/wick-red-team@sha256:5d43095969c36d39

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260826.3841eef, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Apr 21, 2026 and Aug 26, 2026, about one every 127 days.

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git:20260421.9b90d5d2026-04-21 9b90d5d 2,325 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2376 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

agoradynamics/wick · 4 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-27 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7ycoyl37t7bv63po
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=agoradynamics/wick/wick-red-team
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5d43095969c36d39dea23992ec23b5de3bea6342e7f7a9e810e1ca2980c5b7c0

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