santa-method

Santa Method

Multi-agent adversarial verification framework. Make a list, check it twice. If it's naughty, fix it until it's nice.

The core insight: a single agent reviewing its own output shares the same biases, knowledge gaps, and systematic errors that produced the output. Two independent reviewers with no shared context break this failure mode.

When to Activate

Invoke this skill when:

• Output will be published, deployed, or consumed by end users
• Compliance, regulatory, or brand constraints must be enforced
• Code ships to production without human review
• Content accuracy matters (technical docs, educational material, customer-facing copy)
• Batch generation at scale where spot-checking misses systemic patterns
• Hallucination risk is elevated (claims, statistics, API references, legal language)

Do NOT use for internal drafts, exploratory research, or tasks with deterministic verification (use build/test/lint pipelines for those).

Architecture

┌─────────────┐
│  GENERATOR   │  Phase 1: Make a List
│  (Agent A)   │  Produce the deliverable
└──────┬───────┘
       │ output
       ▼
┌──────────────────────────────┐
│     DUAL INDEPENDENT REVIEW   │  Phase 2: Check It Twice
│                                │
│  ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐  │  Two agents, same rubric,
│  │ Reviewer B │ │ Reviewer C │  │  no shared context
│  └─────┬─────┘ └─────┬─────┘  │
│        │              │        │
└────────┼──────────────┼────────┘
         │              │
         ▼              ▼
┌──────────────────────────────┐
│        VERDICT GATE           │  Phase 3: Naughty or Nice
│                                │
│  B passes AND C passes → NICE  │  Both must pass.
│  Otherwise → NAUGHTY           │  No exceptions.
└──────┬──────────────┬─────────┘
       │              │
    NICE           NAUGHTY
       │              │
       ▼              ▼
   [ SHIP ]    ┌─────────────┐
               │  FIX CYCLE   │  Phase 4: Fix Until Nice
               │              │
               │ iteration++  │  Collect all flags.
               │ if i > MAX:  │  Fix all issues.
               │   escalate   │  Re-run both reviewers.
               │ else:        │  Loop until convergence.
               │   goto Ph.2  │
               └──────────────┘