max-effort

Posture for high-stakes / irreversible work. The load-bearing move is adversarial: with the work in front of you, ask whether it answers the real goal and would survive someone trying to break it — then try to break it before you ship.

Not a "be careful" prompt, and not an engine for producing more work. This skill tears down — it assumes the work might be wrong and tries to prove it.

Modes

• /max-effort <task> — single-task, one review round.
• /max-effort sustained — session posture. Only an explicit user signal drops it (max-effort off, stop max-effort, or any unambiguous stop signal in any language); mid-sustained questions or redirects don't. New session starts fresh.

Open the first response with the marker [max-effort] / [max-effort sustained], batch any genuine ambiguity about what is asked once — no "should I be thorough?" padding — then go.

The pass

Always run, in this turn, against the work however it was produced: