adversarial-reviewer
Adversarial code review that breaks the self-review monoculture. Use when you want a genuinely critical review of recent changes, before merging a PR, or when you suspect Claude is being too agreeable about code quality. Forces perspective shifts through hostile reviewer personas that catch blind spots the author's mental model shares with the reviewer.
Profile →npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill adversarial-reviewer --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Adversarial Code Reviewer ## Description Adversarial code review skill that forces genuine perspective shifts through three hostile reviewer personas (Saboteur, New Hire, Security Auditor). Each persona MUST find at least one issue — no "LGTM" escapes. Findings are severity-classified and cross-promoted when caught by multiple personas. ## Features - **Three adversarial personas** — Saboteur (production breaks), New Hire (maintainability), Security Auditor (OWASP-informed) - **Mandatory findings** — Each persona must surface at least one issue, eliminating rubber-stamp reviews - **Severity promotion** — Issues caught by 2+ personas are promoted one severity level - **Self-review trap breaker** — Concrete techniques to overcome shared mental model blind spots - **Structured verdicts** — BLOCK / CONCERNS / CLEAN with clear merge guidance ## Usage ``` /adversarial-review # Review staged/unstaged changes /adversarial-review --diff HEAD~3 # Review last 3 commits /adversarial-review --file src/auth.ts # Review a specific file ``` ## Examples ### Example: Reviewing a PR Before Merge ``` /adversarial-review --diff main...HEAD ``` Produces a structured report with findings from all three
- Description
- Features
- Usage
- Examples
- Example: Reviewing a PR Before Merge
- Problem This Solves
- Table of Contents
- Quick Start
- Review Workflow
- Step 1: Gather the Changes
- Step 2: Read the Full Context
- Step 3: Run All Three Personas
- Step 4: Deduplicate and Synthesize
- The Three Personas
What does the adversarial-reviewer skill do?
Adversarial code review that breaks the self-review monoculture. Use when you want a genuinely critical review of recent changes, before merging a PR, or when you suspect Claude is being too agreeable about code quality. Forces perspective shifts through hostile reviewer personas that catch blind spots the author's mental model shares with the reviewer.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill adversarial-reviewer --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From alirezarezvani/claude-skills, a repository with 23,791 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.