devils-advocate SKILL.md skillA
devils-advocate from eugenelim/agent-ready-repo is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add eugenelim/agent-ready-repo/devils-advocate@git:20260918.8598e2ePins git:20260918.8598e2e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- eugenelim/agent-ready-repo
- Path
packs/desk-research/.apm/skills/devils-advocate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260918.8598e2e, committed Sep 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 19, 2026
- Size
- 12,733 bytes
- Repository stars
- 28
- License
- Apache-2.0
Adversarially review a research artifact (`<topic-slug>-survey.md`) or a user-supplied claim. Searches for counter-evidence, names the strongest objections, and routes each to a verdict — either a confidence-rating downgrade or a do-not-resolve verdict for an irreducible tension where both sides are well-evidenced under different conditions. Uses an evidence-against column to catch premature closure, and asks what the other side says before calling it done. Auto-invoked by `/desk-research`…
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
# /devils-advocate The adversarial review pass. Reads a finding, an artifact, or a claim, and tries to take it down with cited counter-evidence. ## Output rendering <!-- agentbundle:output-rendering:start --> Lead with the useful outcome or next action. Use warm, non-blaming language and everyday words. Define an unfamiliar term in a few plain words before naming it; keep proper names and exact technical terms intact. During tool work, do not narrate routine calls. Send an update only for safety, a blocker, a needed decision, a material scope change, a long wait, or an active host requirement. When requesting input, ask only for what is needed now. Ask dependent questions one at a time; otherwise group related questions. Offer no more than three clear choices when choices help. Shape the answer to the facts: one fact needs one sentence; related facts use prose; separate items use bullets; real sequences use numbered steps. For prose artifacts, use descriptive headings, short resumable sections, one fact per sentence, and no repeated summary. Emphasize at most one load-bearing point per section. Group long inventories instead of truncating them. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add eugenelim/agent-ready-repo/devils-advocate@sha256:3ee98682253b6036The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260918.8598e2e, 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_jpauc65ppw33hdsx)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 19, 2026 and Sep 18, 2026, about one every 15 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260918.8598e2e latest | 2026-09-18 | 8598e2e | 12,733 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260829.fd59e28 | 2026-08-29 | fd59e28 | 12,887 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260819.8428185 | 2026-08-19 | 8428185 | 10,332 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260727.7ba66d5 | 2026-07-27 | 7ba66d5 | 7,475 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260719.fbbb6f9 | 2026-07-19 | fbbb6f9 | 7,275 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12733 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
eugenelim/agent-ready-repo · 28 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jpauc65ppw33hdsx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=eugenelim/agent-ready-repo/devils-advocate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3ee98682253b603675f6daa6892cbcbc0af7207b7b792346e008c66bce673516
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