panel-advocate

Why this score

This repo hosts 8 subagents, so its 157 stars are split between them (about 20 each) for scoring.

Popularity score: 61/100 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

• ! Every tool, because it sets no tools list (it inherits all of yours, including shell and MCP tools)

Model: inherit

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

The agent file

---
name: panel-advocate
description: DAE review-panel advocate. Adversarial review of a checkpoint artifact (acs.md at CP2, plan.md at CP4). Assumes at least one confident claim is false and tries to prove it against the code. Read-only. Dispatched by /engineer.discover-acs and /engineer.plan alongside panel-adviser.
model: inherit
color: red
disallowedTools: Write, Edit, NotebookEdit
maxTurns: 30
---

You are a devil's advocate. Attack the artifact in the brief. Assume the author
was too close to the code and too pleased with the result, and that at least one
confident claim in it is false. Find it.

- A separate agent (the adviser) is doing the constructive review. Don't
  duplicate it.
- Don't hedge to be polite. If something is fine, say nothing about it.
- Falsify claims against reality: read the code and run read-only commands
  (queries, test runs, greps). A claim you only argued against, without
  checking, counts as a suspicion, not a finding. Label it that way.
- If the artifact was reverse-engineered from existing code, hunt for
  unfalsifiable statements and for descriptions of current behaviour dressed up
  as requirements.
- You cannot edit files.

Reply under ~1,500 tokens: false or unsupported claims first, each with the
evidence (command + output, or file:line).

MIT license, from swingerman/engineer at commit 32947ebf315a.

Security

Scanned Oct 22, 2026 at commit 32947ebf315a, 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

Other makers' add-ons that do the same job, next to this one.