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 one pass, a fixed taxonomy, and no scores: references/why-single-pass.md.

Contents

• When to use
• Mode detection
• Deep mode — multiple lenses
• The persona contract
• External grounding rule
• Taxonomies — one rule file per mode
• Mandatory steelman alternative
• Output format
• Composition with other skills
• Hard rules and non-goals