Overview
adversarial-reviewer is an open-source integrations skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by alirezarezvani. Its author describes it as: “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 quali…”. The project has 25k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add alirezarezvani/claude-skills`.
What adversarial-reviewer does
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.
Best for
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for adversarial-reviewer is organised into these sections:
- 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
Installation
Add adversarial-reviewer to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add alirezarezvani/claude-skillsReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — ships a claude code plugin marketplace
- Codex — declared in the repository topics
- Cursor — declared in the repository topics
- Gemini CLI — declared in the repository topics
License
adversarial-reviewer is published under the MIT license.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in alirezarezvani/claude-skills, an established project with 24,617 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 90 days
Author
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does adversarial-reviewer 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 adversarial-reviewer?
- Run /plugin marketplace add alirezarezvani/claude-skills in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills before installing.
- Is adversarial-reviewer free to use?
- Yes. adversarial-reviewer is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does adversarial-reviewer work with?
- adversarial-reviewer lists Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does adversarial-reviewer come from?
- adversarial-reviewer ships inside alirezarezvani/claude-skills, a repository that contains 41 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 24,617 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.