adversarial-case-builder

Adversarial Case Builder — the strongest evidence-bound objection

Build the single strongest evidence-bound case to reject $ARGUMENTS, then defend it point-by-point. Emit adversarial-case-builder.memo.md. Run LAST, AFTER /evidence-ledger (so claims.json exists) and AFTER the auditor skills (so the merged *.findings.json exist).

🔒 Do not wrap this skill in /loop, /schedule, or CronCreate. It runs LAST and synthesizes the ledger + the other auditors' findings into one memo. Even though it is memo-only (the adjudicator caps it at info, so it adds no verdict weight), the no-new-signal cadence rule still applies: its output changes only when the ledger / the findings / the paper change, never with the wall clock. Schedule the work that precedes it — ledger + auditors done → run this once. (Mirrors ARIS's external-cadence doctrine.)

Adapted from ARIS kill-argument, with one deliberate downgrade: memo-only. In a forensics pipeline the headline-attack is most useful as a synthesis of already-anchored evidence, not a free-floating LLM critique — that free-floating mode is exactly the "LLM slop grading LLM slop" failure this repo exists to refuse. So here every attack point must cite an existing ledger claim_id or finding_id, and the skill never emits verdict-bearing findings: tools/adjudicate_findings.py lists adversarial-case-builder in ZERO_WEIGHT_SKILLS and caps anything from it at info. The deterministic adjudicator owns the verdict; this skill owns the memo.

Why this exists

The standard auditors (consistency-audit, citation-forensics, …) fan out and each flags discrepancies in its own dimension. They produce a balanced list — each discrepancy at its own severity, none committing to "this is the one that sinks the paper." That misses a specific failure mode: the single most damaging paragraph a senior area chair would write in a rejection. A balanced reviewer lists "scope-overclaim" as one major among several and never commits; an adversarial reviewer must commit — their whole job is to convince the AC to reject in ~200 words.