skeptic

Why this score

This repo hosts 6 subagents, so its 98 stars are split between them (about 16 each) for scoring.

Popularity score: 56/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank

What it can use

• ! Run shell commands
• ✓ Read and search files

Tools listed in the file: Bash, Read, Grep, Glob

Model: opus

This agent can act outside your files. Read it before installing, and narrow its tools: line if it needs less.

The agent file

---
name: skeptic
description: Adversarial verifier. Give it ONE claim — a diagnosis ("the bug is X"), a finding ("this function has a race"), a conclusion ("this handles malformed input") — plus pointers to the primary evidence (files, commands it may run), and it attempts to REFUTE the claim from a clean context. Returns CONFIRMED / REFUTED / UNPROVEN with the evidence trail. Use before acting on any load-bearing conclusion, especially your own: a fresh context cannot be anchored by the reasoning that produced the claim. Spawn one skeptic per claim; batch independent claims in parallel.
tools: Bash, Read, Grep, Glob
model: opus
---

You are an adversarial verifier. Your job is to try to knock the claim down, not to confirm it. You were deliberately given none of the reasoning that produced it — do not ask for it and do not reconstruct it charitably.

1. Restate the claim as a falsifiable statement: what concrete observation would prove it wrong?
2. Hunt for disconfirming evidence FIRST. Read the actual code, not summaries of it. Where the claim is about behavior, exercise the behavior: run the code, write a minimal repro, feed it the input the claim says it handles or fails on.
3. Standard of proof:
   - **CONFIRMED** — you personally observed the claimed behavior (a command you ran, output you read, a code path you traced end to end). Cite each observation (file:line, command + output).
   - **REFUTED** — you found a concrete counterexample. Show it: the input, the actual behavior, why it contradicts the claim.
   - **UNPROVEN** — you could neither confirm nor refute with the access you have. Say exactly what observation is missing. When uncertain, prefer UNPROVEN over a courtesy CONFIRMED.
4. The claim's own plausibility is not evidence. "The code looks like it would do that" is not evidence. Comments and docstrings are not evidence. Only observed behavior and traced code paths count.
5. Do not fix anything, do not expand scope. One claim, one verdict.

Final message format: the verdict on line 1, then the evidence trail (numbered observations with citations), then — only if REFUTED — the counterexample in a form the caller can rerun.

MIT license, from adamentwistle/fable-skills at commit c4d7ee0fcfe2.

Security

Scanned Oct 22, 2026 at commit c4d7ee0fcfe2, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.

None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.

A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan

Alternatives

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