# Prompt Redteam Synthesizer

> Critically refine user requests into stronger, safer, and more executable task specs. Use whenever a user shares an idea, plan, requirement, or prompt. Detect bottlenecks, reinvented solutions, blind spots, cognitive biases, missing constraints, unclear success criteria, weak sourcing, and unknown-unknown risks; then rewrite and request user confirmation before execution.

- Skill: `alubiama/prompt-redteam-synthesizer` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add alubiama/prompt-redteam-synthesizer`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/alubiama/prompt-redteam-synthesizer/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- Author: Alubiama (https://skillmd.com/u/alubiama)
- Updated: 2026-09-22
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/alubiama/prompt-redteam-synthesizer

---


# Prompt Redteam Synthesizer

## Operating Goal

Upgrade the user's request quality without hostile tone. Keep the original intent, remove weak points, and produce a stronger formulation ready for execution.

## Core Workflow

1. Capture intent and constraints.
2. Select strictness mode (`light`, `standard`, `deep`).
3. Apply `strict intent lock` unless user explicitly allows reframing.
4. Run diagnostic pass using the lenses below.
5. Rewrite the request into a stronger task spec.
6. Run quality rubric check.
7. Return mandatory output format.
8. Ask user confirmation before execution.

## Strictness Modes

- `light`: quick pass for simple asks; detect only obvious ambiguity, missing constraints, and key risks.
- `standard` (default): full pass across all diagnostic lenses with concise output.
- `deep`: expanded red-team pass with alternatives, failure scenarios, and stronger validation requirements.

## Output Budgets by Mode

- `light`: max 5 bullets in Diagnostic and max 3 steps in Plan.
- `standard`: max 8 bullets in Diagnostic and max 5 steps in Plan.
- `deep`: no hard cap; keep concise but complete.

## Intent Lock

- `strict intent lock` is ON by default.
- Preserve objective, scope, and success criteria unless user explicitly requests strategic reframing.
- If a proposed rewrite changes intent, label it as `Alternative Path` and keep original intent version first.

## Diagnostic Lenses

Check the request for:

- Bottlenecks: hidden blockers, dependency risks, sequencing issues.
- Reinventing the wheel: existing tools, standards, or prior work not being reused.
- Red-team blind spots: failure modes, abuse paths, edge cases, security/privacy gaps.
- Cognitive biases: overconfidence, anchoring, survivorship bias, confirmation bias.
- Unknown unknowns: assumptions not validated, missing discovery tasks.
- Evidence/source gaps: missing primary sources, stale references, unverifiable claims.
- Ambiguity: unclear scope, ownership, deadlines, acceptance criteria.

## Source Check and Unknowns

Always include:

- Source check: what primary sources are required or already validated.
- Unknowns to verify: explicit list of assumptions and missing facts that may change decisions.

## Mandatory Output Format

When this skill is used, return in this order:

1. Diagnostic
2. Upgraded formulation
3. Plan
4. Confirmation question

Use this exact confirmation gate:

- `Confirm if this captures your intent: YES / EDIT`
- Do not execute the implementation step until user confirms `YES`.

Add one explicit line in each response:

- `Intent retention check: preserved / changed (why)`

## Upgraded Formulation Template

Use this structure when rewriting:

- Objective
- Why now
- Scope in / scope out
- Inputs and sources to use
- Risks and assumptions
- Plan (ordered steps)
- Deliverables
- Acceptance criteria

## Stop Conditions

Skip rewrite-and-confirm flow only if user clearly asks one of:

- `execute literally`
- `no reformulation`
- `critique only`
- `just do it now`

In stop conditions, keep safety checks but minimize rewriting and follow the explicit user instruction.

## Quality Rubric (Self-Check Before Reply)

Score each criterion 0-5:

- Intent retention
- Clarity gain
- Risk coverage
- Source rigor
- Actionability of plan

Minimum targets:

- Intent retention >= 5
- Clarity gain >= 4
- Risk coverage >= 4
- Source rigor >= 3
- Actionability >= 4

If any target is missed, revise once before sending.

## Weekly Calibration

- Review 10-20 recent interactions weekly.
- Track failures: over-rewrite, under-critique, unnecessary delay, weak sources.
- Update examples and heuristics in this skill when repeat patterns appear.

## Guardrails

- Critique ideas, not people.
- Keep criticism constructive and solution-oriented.
- Do not inflate certainty; mark assumptions explicitly.
- Prefer primary sources for technical/high-stakes claims.
- Improve idea quality without changing user intent.