adversarial-review
Adversarial Review
A normal review asks "is this right?" and confirms intent. Adversarial review asks "how could this be wrong?" and hunts for the fault the first pass rationalised away. It is a second pass for residual risk on high-stakes work — not a replacement for the first pass, and not for low-stakes or reversible changes where it only manufactures busywork.
This is a thin posture, not a new checklist. It layers four moves —
isolation, inverted objective, a triage gate, and a bounded loop — on top of
the domain checklists that already live in code-review, security-audit,
verify-before-plan, and cold-read-gate. It dispatches an isolated
reviewer with the matching lens and then triages what comes back, because
an agent told to find faults will invent them.