Red Team Light

Plans that reach easy consensus go untested. This skill suspends the cooperative stance and constructs the strongest case against a single proposal or thesis: the best objections a motivated, intelligent adversary would raise (steelman, not strawman), then judges which land and what would rebut them. The output is an adversarial critique. Honest limit: an AI red team is constructed, role-played dissent, and role-played dissent does not match genuine dissent (Nemeth) - so for high stakes it flags whether a real dissenting view should be sought, not just the model's.

When to Use

• A plan has too-easy consensus and nobody is really arguing the other side.
• Before committing to a strong thesis or recommendation.
• To pressure-test the agent's own confident output.

When NOT to Use

• When the team needs alignment and buy-in more than another critique.
• When you need failure causes over time (use premortem) or a rounded multi-lens view (use parallel perspectives).
• If it would only produce performative contrarianism rather than the strongest objections.

Instructions

When asked to red team, follow these steps: