Critical — Adversarial Pre-Mortem

Challenge the proposed work as a hostile staff engineer would. Surface specific, grounded failure modes; force at least one steelmanned alternative; hand scoring to /confidence.

Why this exists, in one paragraph. A single LLM "be honest" pass tends to confirm rather than challenge — naïve self-refine has been shown to amplify bias (Pride and Prejudice, ACL 2024) and to add no gains over self-consistency when the initial answer is already strong (SELF-[IN]CORRECT, AAAI). External grounding plus a fixed taxonomy beats vague introspection (CRITIC framework). This skill is the structured counter-pressure: one pass, hostile persona, mandatory citations, mandatory steelman, no self-scoring.

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