synthesis-adversarial-review SKILL.md skillA

synthesis-adversarial-review from synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-adversarial-review@v2.0.0

Pins v2.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills
Path
skills/synthesis-adversarial-review/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
8
Latest version
v2.0.0, committed Oct 6, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 26, 2026
Size
5,970 bytes
Repository stars
23
License
Apache-2.0

Run bounded adversarial review by differently shaped agents against the principal's outcome: artifact-complete rounds, production-topology handoffs, concessions, a markdown findings table, sufficiency rulings, post-publication acceptance. Use for adversarial, cross-agent or red-team review.

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

# Synthesis Adversarial Review

Differently shaped agents attack the same work from different blind spots, in bounded rounds, to deliver what the principal asked to ship.

Before freezing or accepting a package, apply the mandatory [domain contracts and replay scorecard](references/domain-review-contract.md).

## Binding rules

The rules follow the protocol's sections in order, Purpose through Completion Report; [references/protocol.md](references/protocol.md) holds each section in full.

1. **The review exists to deliver the principal's outcome:** the artifacts and enforced boundaries the principal asked to ship, at the accepted quality bar. Reviewer satisfaction, control growth and a large finding count are not completion criteria.
2. **The review grants no publication, deployment, communication or repair authority.** Apply the shared [decision ownership contract](../synthesis-thinking-framework/references/decision-ownership.md) and record the technical sufficiency owner first.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-adversarial-review@sha256:98566ecc2cea7bac

The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.0.0, 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 8 versions of this file, between Aug 26, 2026 and Oct 6, 2026, about one every 6 days.

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v2.0.0 latest2026-10-06 4554f32 5,970 BA view · diff
v2.0.02026-10-06 26e97df 6,270 BA view · diff
v1.2.12026-10-01 495ce4f 14,110 BA view · diff
v1.2.02026-09-28 6725b62 13,347 BA view · diff
v1.1.12026-09-25 8bd4ded 13,097 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-09-25 05b0737 12,580 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-20 dc499e4 11,484 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-08-26 31c4510 10,068 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 (5970 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

synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills · 23 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_g6hezrgbnm6qdfq4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-adversarial-review
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/98566ecc2cea7bac87a5eed4633d6b1b0e33813600eb4d63ad62fa49bfcb4785

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