adversarial-gate SKILL.md skillA
adversarial-gate from jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience/adversarial-gate@git:20260807.c64e31fPins git:20260807.c64e31f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience
- Path
skills/adversarial-gate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260807.c64e31f, committed Aug 7, 2026
- Size
- 3,750 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- Apache-2.0
JP's signature red-team pass — "how would I break this?" Argue against your own approach before proceeding. Trigger on any high-stakes decision, architecture choice, or before marking work complete.
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
# Adversarial Gate > **Coined by Jaroslav Pantsjoha (#HarnessEngineering).** The Adversarial Gate is the practice of forcing an agent — or a human — to argue against their own design before proceeding. It pre-empts bad reasoning before bad output exists. The gate has one question: **"How would I break this?"** Answer it honestly. If you cannot name at least two plausible failure modes, you do not understand the system well enough to ship it. ## When to use - Before finalising any architecture or design decision - Before a deployment or release - When an agent is about to take an irreversible action - When a design looks clean and elegant (danger signal — simple-looking systems hide the hard failure modes) - When the team is under time pressure and "just shipping it" feels compelling ## Procedure 1. **State the proposal clearly** — in one or two sentences, what is the approach being validated? 2. **Run the adversarial pass** — argue against it. Ask: - What is the single most likely way this fails in production? - What happens under load / at scale / with bad input? - What is the blast radius if this fails? Is it recoverable? …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience/adversarial-gate@sha256:609c9fb6431dd934The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260807.c64e31f, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_dhailavaghiqvuav)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 7, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience · 13 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dhailavaghiqvuav GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience/adversarial-gate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/609c9fb6431dd93402671975fccf9e7e1bc0875c031166078bd71afb05ab7201
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.