adversarial-critique

Adversarial Critique

Use council_evaluate, council_review_plan, council_review_diff, and council_preflight to stress-test work before it goes live. The council's adversarial structure surfaces blind spots that self-review misses.

When to Use

• Before publishing: Evaluate research, articles, or analysis
• Before deploying: Gate code deployments with safety review
• Before sending: Review messages or communications for tone and accuracy
• During development: Get structured feedback on design decisions
• After completion: Retrospective quality check on finished work

Tools

council_evaluate -- Quality Assessment

council_evaluate(
    content="[your work product]",
    question="[what task it was supposed to accomplish]",
    criteria=["accuracy", "depth", "falsifiability", "evidence"]
)

Returns per-persona feedback and an overall confidence score.

council_gate -- Safety Check

council_gate(
    action="Deploy v2.0 to production with new authentication system",
    risk_level="high",
    context="New auth uses JWT tokens instead of session cookies. All tests pass."
)

Returns verdict (allow, allow_with_conditions, or deny), blocking risks, required checks, safe alternatives, and reasoning. Uses abbreviated council (Skeptic + Oracle + Arbiter) for speed.

Risk level thresholds:

• low: Allowed if confidence >= 30%
• medium: Allowed if confidence >= 50%
• high: Allowed if confidence >= 70%

council_review_plan -- Plan Review

council_review_plan(
    plan="[implementation plan]",
    objective="Ship the feature without breaking existing integrations",
    risk_level="medium"
)

council_review_diff -- Diff Review

council_review_diff(
    diff="[git diff]",
    objective="Review for bugs, security regressions, and missing tests",
    files=["src/auth.py", "tests/test_auth.py"]
)

council_preflight -- Action Gate

council_preflight(
    action="Run production migration",
    risk_level="high",
    context="Migration backfills NULL emails before adding NOT NULL",
    checks=["backup exists", "rollback SQL written"]
)