vibe-devil-advocate-review SKILL.md skillA
vibe-devil-advocate-review from ash1794/vibe-engineering is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ash1794/vibe-engineering/vibe-devil-advocate-review@git:20261006.c9fd7bePins git:20261006.c9fd7be in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ash1794/vibe-engineering
- Path
plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-devil-advocate-review/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261006.c9fd7be, committed Oct 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 25, 2026
- Size
- 9,060 bytes
- Repository stars
- 165
- License
- MIT
Challenges a recommendation, design, large change, or any artifact submitted for hard review (spec, proposal, policy, plan) across 5 dimensions (consistency, completeness, actionability, alignment, risk), from the standards of a named senior expert in the artifact's domain and ideally from a fresh context or a different model. Searches assuming defects exist and reports only those that survive evidence. Panel mode runs several independent lenses in parallel on a release candidate, verifies…
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
# vibe-devil-advocate-review
Before shipping a recommendation, challenge it. Models still tend to agree with their own earlier reasoning and with the user, and to read a capable-looking artifact as good. A reviewer that shares the author's context inherits the author's blind spots, so the review is strongest when the reviewer doesn't share them.
Two rules govern the whole review. **Search like a pessimist**: assume defects exist, and treat finding none as a sign the search wasn't hard enough yet. **Report like a scientist**: say only what survives as a real, evidenced defect. The first rule sets how hard you look; the second sets what you say. A manufactured finding is as damaging as flattery, because it teaches the author to discount the next real one.
## When to Use This Skill
- Before sending a design document for approval
- Before shipping a recommendation that combines multiple inputs
- Before merging a large feature branch
- When you feel "too confident" about a solution
- User asks for a review, a second opinion, or a brutally honest critique ("tear this apart", "poke holes in this", "what's wrong with this")
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ash1794/vibe-engineering/vibe-devil-advocate-review@sha256:50ad136a1ee134faThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261006.c9fd7be, 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_yanl5t2jut6sko3z)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Sep 25, 2026 and Oct 6, 2026, about one every 6 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261006.c9fd7be latest | 2026-10-06 | c9fd7be | 9,060 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260928.7d7cde1 | 2026-09-28 | 7d7cde1 | 4,322 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.f6554ff | 2026-09-25 | f6554ff | 3,177 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 (9060 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
ash1794/vibe-engineering · 165 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-07 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yanl5t2jut6sko3z GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ash1794/vibe-engineering/vibe-devil-advocate-review GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/50ad136a1ee134fa208c04ae4350daa21ed3dd95df2235defead8005e678237c
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