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Devil's Advocate
Strengthen any proposal, plan, architecture, or decision by assigning a dedicated Devil's Advocate agent whose sole job is to find weaknesses, challenge assumptions, and force the Proposer to build a more robust solution.
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📄ORCHESTRATION.md— Orchestration
1# ORCHESTRATION.md
2
3## Diagram
4
5 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
6 │ Proposer Agent │
7 │ (produces proposal, plan, or decision) │
8 └────────────────────┬─────────────────────┘
9 ▼
10 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
11 │ Devil's Advocate Agent │
12 │ (challenges, stress-tests, finds holes) │
13 └────────────────────┬─────────────────────┘
14 ▼
15 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
16 │ Proposer Agent │
17 │ (revises or explicitly defends) │
18 └────────────────────┬─────────────────────┘
19 ▼
20 ┌──────────────┐
21 │ More rounds? │
22 └──────┬───────┘
23 no │ yes
24 ┌─────────────────┴────────────┐
25 ▼ ▼
26 ┌──────────┐ ┌──────────────────┐
27 │ Arbiter │ │ Next challenge │
28 │ decision │ │ round │
29 └──────────┘ └──────────────────┘
30
31
32## Workflow
33Devil's Advocate
34
35## Objective
36Strengthen any proposal, plan, architecture, or decision by assigning a dedicated Devil's Advocate agent whose sole job is to find weaknesses, challenge assumptions, and force the Proposer to build a more robust solution.
37
38## Roles
39- **Proposer Agent:** produces the initial proposal and defends or revises it after each challenge round.
40- **Devil's Advocate Agent:** relentlessly identifies flaws, blind spots, edge cases, and unstated assumptions — without proposing alternatives. Only challenges.
41- **Arbiter:** reviews the full transcript and decides whether the proposal is sufficiently hardened or needs another round. Can be a human or a senior agent.
42
43## When to use
44- High-stakes proposals: architecture decisions, product specs, investment cases, pricing strategies.
45- Decisions where groupthink is a risk (team is too aligned on one approach).
46- Before any irreversible commitment.
47- Post-incident reviews where "why didn't we think of this?" is a known failure mode.
48- Any plan where the author has strong ownership bias.
49
50## Protocol
511. Proposer submits initial proposal with explicit claims, assumptions, and expected outcomes.
522. Devil's Advocate receives the proposal and produces a challenge brief:
53 - Weakest assumptions (top 3).
54 - Scenarios where the plan fails.
55 - Stakeholders or risks not considered.
56 - Questions the Proposer cannot yet answer.
573. Proposer responds: revise the proposal or explicitly defend each challenge point with evidence.
584. Devil's Advocate evaluates the response and either:
59 - Issues a second wave of challenges (deeper layer).
60 - Declares "no further critical objections."
615. Arbiter reviews the full exchange and decides: ship, revise, or escalate.
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63## Devil's Advocate rules
64- Must NOT propose alternatives — only identify problems.
65- Must ground every challenge in a realistic scenario, not hypothetical extremes.
66- Must challenge assumptions, not just surface details.
67- Must not repeat the same objection if it was adequately addressed.
68- Must produce at least 3 distinct challenge categories per round.
69
70## Proposer rules
71- Must respond to every challenge — no skipping.
72- "We'll deal with that later" is not an acceptable defense without a concrete plan.
73- Revisions must be explicit: state what changed and why.
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75## Rules
76- Maximum 3 rounds before Arbiter makes a final call.
77- Challenge brief and all responses are immutable audit records.
78- Arbiter decision must include rationale.
79
80## Deliverables
81- Final hardened proposal (with revision history).
82- Challenge log: all objections raised and their dispositions (resolved / accepted risk / deferred with plan).
83- Arbiter decision with rationale.
84- List of explicitly accepted risks.
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