adversarial-review
Skill87 starsChanged 34 days agoMITView on GitHub
Materialize a review posture biased to disprove, not approve, before a non-trivial decision stands. Use for architectural decisions made under uncertainty, non-trivial code about to be committed, non-obvious claims ("this is safe", "this scales"), or unfamiliar code — while course-correction is still cheap, not just at the end. Sharper version of fresh-context-review — the framing of the review request decides the answer.
104 other projects use a version of this.
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- revisit-studies/studytheir own version, first seen Nov 9, 2026
- ozt88/skillstheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- selamy-labs/agent-skillstheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- kellen-miller/skillstheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- leinardi/adversarial-review-looptheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- artberri/skillstheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
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fabioespindulaSkillrethink
Reframe a plan, idea, or decision before the user commits to it. Use when the user asks to rethink, step back, pressure-test, gut-check, decide, right-size, simplify, think bigger about, or evaluate a concrete plan or decision in product, strategy, technical architecture, career, life, company direction, or personal priorities. This skill improves decision quality before action: clarify the real question, challenge assumptions, compare alternatives, calibrate ambition, classify the operating mode, surface risks, and recommend a next move. Do not use for broad future exploration without a concrete decision; that belongs to a think-big or research-style skill.
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MicrosoftSkillroot-cause-analysis
Use when a Regional Retail Manager asks I'm seeing unusual inventory movement at our Northwest stores. Can you help me understand what's happening?
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Skill for integrating Better Auth - the comprehensive TypeScript authentication framework.
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DockerSkillfix-issue
Fix a single GitHub issue end-to-end: triage, research, write the fix, review, and create a PR. Use when asked to fix an issue: "fix issue 1234", "resolve #500", "create a PR for issue 200".
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MicrosoftSkillpull-request
Write concise, focused pull request descriptions for Wassette — at most three sentences on the what and why, with an explicit note on any breaking public-API change and how users adapt. Use when opening or editing a Wassette pull request.
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Run code review via Codex CLI
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- PrefectHQ/fastmcp★ 28ksame name
- jlowin/fastmcp★ 28ksame name
- mengxi-ream/read-frog★ 10ksame name
- epicenter-md/epicenter★ 4.8ksame name
- EpicenterHQ/epicenter★ 4.8ksame name
- basicmachines-co/basic-memory★ 4.5ksame name
- DanMcInerney/architect-loop★ 626same name
- deadlock-mod-manager/deadlock-mod-manager★ 584same name
- boraoztunc/skills★ 454same name
- syahiidkamil/Software-Engineer-AI-Agent-Atlas★ 404same name
94 more not listed
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
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The file
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1 rule. 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Most of the 93 edited versions we read keep these.
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Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
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“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 93 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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Disprove-Biased Review (router)
This skill is tuned per model. Pick the file that matches the model actually running, and apply it in full — the core procedure is the same everywhere, but how hard to push, how much to delegate, and how much narration to expect differs by tier.
| Model | File |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | opus-5-5.md |
| Claude Fable 5.1 | fable-5-1.md |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | sonnet-5.md |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | sonnet-5-5.md |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | haiku-5-5.md |
| OpenAI GPT-6 Astra | gpt-6-astra.md |
| OpenAI GPT-6 Sol | gpt-6-sol.md |
| OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol | gpt-6-1-sol.md |
| OpenAI GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna.md |
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Running a model not listed above (an older generation, a different model family entirely)? sonnet-5.md carries the fullest general-purpose version of the underlying procedure — read that one rather than skipping this skill.
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