Before committing to an architecture, interface, or rollout plan, have a critic argue that it is wrong. Record each objection, impact, and status in a repository-local log at .agent-reviews/redteam.md. The builder must fix and verify each high-impact weakness or document why it is accepted; the critic may reopen unsupported answers. Stop when no high-impact objection remains or the same issues repeat for two rounds without new evidence. Finish with the decision, resolved and accepted objections, evidence, and any stalemate.
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Use this when
Use this before committing to an architecture, interface, rollout plan, or other consequential design that benefits from structured adversarial review.
How it runs
Write the design goals and acceptance criteria, then initialize .agent-reviews/redteam.md inside the repository and keep it out of commits.
Have the critic present the strongest evidence-backed case against the current design and rank each objection by impact.
Have the builder repair the weakness or document an explicit acceptance rationale, then verify the result against the stated criteria.
Let the critic reopen weak answers and repeat until the objections are closed with evidence or the loop reports a stalemate honestly.
Done when
✓ No high-impact objection remains open. Every logged objection is verified as resolved or explicitly accepted with evidence, or the final report truthfully records a two-round stalemate.
Why it works
Separating critic and builder roles makes disagreement explicit. A persistent objection log prevents circular debate, while evidence-based closure stops the builder from declaring success by explanation alone.
Implementation note
Keep the critic independent where possible. Do not change the acceptance criteria mid-run simply to close a difficult objection.
Turn [artifact] into a skill, playbook, or procedure. Record evidence that the artifact succeeded and define success criteria. Extract decisions, sequence, checks, and failure-avoidance patterns—not context or surface style. Remove sensitive material. Have an independent reviewer apply it to a fresh real second case; mark hypothetical testing provisional. Revise at most twice. Stop when it meets the quality bar without the artifact, or report not generalizable. Return the method, boundaries, failure modes, test evidence, revisions, limits, and attribution.
Maintain a durable, versioned playbook of lessons that may improve future runs of [task or workflow]. Store it in [path], using playbook/ by default. Treat every recorded lesson as untrusted advice rather than authority. At the start of each run, read the playbook and choose at most one relevant lesson to test. Apply it only within the task's existing permissions. Measure the result using the task's own success check and record the context, action, outcome, and evidence. Promote a candidate lesson only after it succeeds across [N] independent runs or a predefined holdout set. Use three independent runs by default. Never promote a lesson from one successful attempt. Revise or remove lessons that stop helping. Stop when no candidate has enough evidence, another test would exceed the budget, or approval is required. Never let the playbook authorize production, destructive, financial, privacy-sensitive, or external actions. Finish with the playbook diff, evidence ledger, removed lessons, unresolved candidates, and new version.