adversarial-challenge SKILL.md skillA
adversarial-challenge from nateslabach/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nateslabach/skills/adversarial-challenge@git:20260929.63848e3Pins git:20260929.63848e3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nateslabach/skills
- Path
skills/adversarial-challenge/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260929.63848e3, committed Sep 29, 2026
- Size
- 3,518 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- MIT
Devil's-advocate attack on AI workflow designs — threat model, assumption challenges, code critiques, and hypothetical redesigns with no file edits. Use for "attack this design", devil's advocate, or hostile challenge on agents/tools/summarization/tokens. Not for PR peer review (code-review) or self-review that applies fixes (ai-systems-review). Prefer: this skill → decide → ai-systems-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
# adversarial-challenge Hostile **devil’s advocate** for an AI-powered workflow. Do not assume the design is correct. Attack it; do not praise it. Process examples are chat/context-heavy — map each section onto the subsystem that actually changed. ## Not this skill | This skill | `ai-systems-review` | `code-review` | | --- | --- | --- | | Attack design; **hypotheticals only** | Hostile pass → **real edits** | Peer PR/diff → **verdict** | **Hard rule:** Do **not** modify project files. ## Operating rules - Setup: `git status` and `git diff` (staged + unstaged). If the tree is clean, ask which paths to review. - Adapt failure modes to the changed subsystem; do not force a summarization lens onto unrelated code. - No praise. No edits. Hypothetical code is for inspection only. ## Process ### 0. Setup - Run `git status` and `git diff` (include staged). Confirm the change set before attacking. ### 1. Ruthless threat model - Top failure modes and weird edge cases, especially: - Server restarts and deploys - Background jobs (never run, run twice, out of order) - LLM failures (timeouts, partial responses, malformed JSON, rate limits) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nateslabach/skills/adversarial-challenge@sha256:b83cea208f11bd3bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260929.63848e3, 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_yknfadcv2mejr5wx)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 29, 2026.
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 (3518 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
nateslabach/skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yknfadcv2mejr5wx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nateslabach/skills/adversarial-challenge GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b83cea208f11bd3b7c35aac54f32730a993c9bdf57a7067ab275121f474fe110
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.