/contract-stress-test

Purpose

/contract-stress-test is the canonical application of Pattern 5 Adversarial Review from delegation-protocol.md to a near-final contract draft. It takes a contract that has already been triaged clause-by-clause (typically by /contract-review) and stress-tests it with a fresh-context adversarial pass designed to surface risks the prior review missed or under-scored.

The skill's core mechanic is role separation. A fresh-context adversarial agent reads the current draft without access to the drafter's prior-turn rationale and without access to earlier iterations of the review. This prevents the adversarial agent from converging on the drafter's framing and is what makes the pattern "adversarial" rather than "collaborative review."

What it IS: a structured adversarial stress-test with explicit scope boundaries, a two-iteration cap, and a named human tiebreaker who resolves contested findings. Every finding is tagged for severity (P0/P1/P2), verdict (address/accept-with-risk/reject-as-hypothetical), and relationship to prior review (NEW/OVERLAP/CONTRADICT).

What it is NOT: legal advice, a substitute for licensed counsel, a redline authoring tool, a negotiation strategy, or a replacement for /contract-review. A7 does not re-do A1's clause-by-clause pass. It sits on top of A1 and deliberately targets what A1 missed.

When to Use

Invoke /contract-stress-test ONLY when ALL of the following are true: