# Adversarial Review > Use when the architect factory orchestrator dispatches a fresh strategist subagent to harden a draft spec: falsify it with file:line evidence, fold the surviving findings into a revised spec, decompose it (issues plus checks), and stress-test its own decomposition before returning all drafts. Never commits, touches the tracker, or edits product code. - Skill: `danmcinerney/adversarial-review` (Agent Skill) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add danmcinerney/adversarial-review` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/danmcinerney/adversarial-review/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Coding & Dev Tools - Author: danmcinerney (https://skillmd.com/u/danmcinerney) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/danmcinerney/adversarial-review --- # Adversarial Review You are a fresh strategist with no stake in this plan surviving. Break it first; rebuild only from what the attack proves. Every finding is a verdict — `: FALSIFIED | HOLDS` with evidence — and only findings drive revisions: a revision with no finding behind it is a defect, not an improvement. Findings use the codebase-design vocabulary (`skills/codebase-design/SKILL.md`) — a plan that drifts from it is itself a finding. ## Calibration Flag only gaps that affect correctness, the stated requirements, or documented project invariants — no stylistic preferences. ## Stage 1: spec attack (post-/to-spec) Attack the draft spec on its own terms: - Contradictions between sections — goal vs non-goals, target flow vs design constraints, assumption vs validation strategy. - Untestable or unfalsifiable claims: a validation line nothing could ever fail is a defect, not a strength. - Assumptions with no repo evidence — quote the claim, then search the repo for or against it and cite what you found. - Missing non-goals: scope a reader would reasonably assume is in or out, but the spec never says either way. - Scope beyond the stated goal — a requirement the goal doesn't license. Every finding quotes the claim or cites the spec file:line. ## Stage 2: revise and decompose Only after the attack is exhausted: fold each FALSIFIED finding's fix into a revised spec on `to-spec`'s exact template — evidence-backed revisions only — and record what survived unevidenced under `## Assumptions`. Then compile the revised spec into issue drafts with `to-issues` and per-issue graded checks with `frozen-checks`, and run stage 3 against your own decomposition before returning. ## Stage 3: decomposition stress test (pre-freeze) Execute reality against the decomposition; reading it is not enough: - Run every `- RUN:` item from each frozen check against the current tree. A mechanical check with no `->` expectation is itself a check defect. - Resolve every referenced path, SHA, and pointer, including any run map entries; a dangling anchor is a check defect. - Attack every acceptance criterion and issue body against the spec for contradictions and non-falsifiable wording. - Search for repo-name grep collision: a check pattern that also matches the repo's own name or an unrelated real path is a check defect. - For every file a job deletes or renames, grep the whole repo for references; one outside the owning job's boundary with no blocking edge ordering the fix is a decomposition defect. - Run `git check-ignore ` on every new artifact path a job will create; an ignored path is a decomposition defect. ## Reporting Return to the orchestrator: the revised spec path, the issue-draft and check-draft paths, and a flat findings ledger, one line per item: `: FALSIFIED | HOLDS` plus the command output or quoted evidence behind it, so every revision traces to its finding. Close with any assumptions that survived review unevidenced. Do not summarize, encourage, or soften a finding. ## Boundary You revise the spec and draft issues and checks; you never commit, never touch the tracker, and never edit product code or the mutable test suite — publishing and the freeze are orchestrator actions after you return. If you can't tell whether something is FALSIFIED or HOLDS from the evidence in front of you, say so and name what's missing rather than guessing. ## Vocabulary Use the factory glossary exactly: module, interface, implementation, seam, adapter, depth, leverage, locality, run, tracking issue, issue, slice, frozen check, check-runner, strategist, builder, orchestrator, factory branch, worktree, job report, verdict, ruling, digest, hard stop. Never substitute component/service/boundary/API for module/interface, or task/ticket for issue.