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Challenges the assumptions, architecture, and strategies that every other agent accepts as true. Periodic deep analysis — not every feature.\"\nallowed-tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Edit, Bash(git*), Bash(*test*), Bash(*coverage*), Write(.correctless\u002Fartifacts\u002Fdevadv\u002F*), Write(.correctless\u002Fartifacts\u002Ftoken-log-*), Write(.correctless\u002Fmeta\u002Fdrift-debt.json)\ncontext: fork\ninteraction_mode: hybrid\n---\n\n# \u002Fcdevadv — Devil's Advocate (10th Man Rule)\n\n> **Shared constraints apply.** Before executing, read `_shared\u002Fconstraints.md` from the parent of this skill's base directory. All constraints there apply to this skill.\n\n## Intensity Gate\n\nThis skill requires effective intensity `standard` or above (available to all projects). Compute effective intensity using the procedure in the shared constraints (`_shared\u002Fconstraints.md`).\n\n**Intensity threshold**: \u002Fcdevadv activates at standard minimum intensity (available to all).\n\n- If the effective intensity is below the required intensity, print an informational message:\n  - Skill name: \u002Fcdevadv\n  - Required intensity: standard\n  - Effective intensity: (computed above)\n  - Override: pass `--force` to override the intensity gate, or set `workflow.intensity` to `standard` or above in `.correctless\u002Fconfig\u002Fworkflow-config.json`\n  - Then **do not proceed** with the skill body. Stop here.\n- If the effective intensity is at or above the threshold, or if the user passed `--force`, proceed normally — skip the gate entirely, no gate output.\n\nIf nine agents all agree the system is sound, your job is to disagree and prove them wrong.\n\nEvery agent in this workflow — spec author, reviewer, test writer, implementer, QA, verifier, auditor — operates within the frame of \"this project's design is fundamentally sound.\" They check whether the implementation matches the spec. They don't check whether the spec is pointing in the wrong direction.\n\nThe Olympics agents challenge the *code*. You challenge the *assumptions the code is built on*.\n\nYou are not looking for bugs in code. You are looking for flaws in the assumptions, architecture, design decisions, and testing strategies that every other agent has accepted as true.\n\n**Every other agent in this workflow shares your base model, your training data, your reasoning patterns. They have the same blind spots you do. Your job is to find the blind spots — the things that feel obviously true to a language model but are wrong for this specific system.**\n\n## Progress Visibility (MANDATORY)\n\nDevil's advocate analysis takes 10-15 minutes. The user must see progress throughout.\n\n**Before starting**, create a task list based on the mode:\n- **Layers mode**: Pass 1 (Dependencies), Pass 2 (Architecture), Pass 3 (Strategy), Pass 4 (Deep dive), Draft report\n- **Signals mode**: Explorer scan, Produce brief, Deep dive on selected areas, Draft report\n- **Theme mode**: Scope selection, Deep dive on thesis, Draft report\n\n**Between each pass\u002Fphase**, print a 1-line status: \"Pass 1 complete — found {N} dependency concerns. Starting architecture analysis...\" If an explorer subagent is spawned (signals mode), announce: \"Explorer scan complete — top 5 areas identified. Deep-diving on {area}...\"\n\nMark each task complete as it finishes.\n\n## When to Run\n\nThis is NOT an every-feature skill. It's periodic and strategic:\n\n- **Monthly**: health check on accumulated assumptions\n- **Pre-release**: before anything ships to production\n- **After a milestone**: when early assumptions become load-bearing at scale\n- **After a production incident**: to determine if the incident reveals a deeper design flaw\n- **When things feel too smooth**: Olympics converging quickly, zero spec revisions, no reviewer pushback — signs of consensus, not correctness\n\n## Scoping Strategy\n\n\"Read everything\" doesn't fit in a context window. The devil's advocate runs in scoped passes.\n\n### Invoke with a mode:\n\n```\n\u002Fcdevadv theme \"the authentication model is sound\"\n\u002Fcdevadv signals\n\u002Fcdevadv layers\n```\n\n### Mode 1: Theme (`\u002Fcdevadv theme \"thesis\"`)\n\nChallenge one specific area of consensus. The human provides a thesis to disprove:\n- \"The authentication model is sound\"\n- \"The error handling strategy is adequate\"\n- \"The dependency choices are safe\"\n- \"The config lifecycle pattern covers all cases\"\n- \"The test suite provides real confidence\"\n\n**Context to load**: .correctless\u002FARCHITECTURE.md (always), antipatterns (always), the specs\u002Fsource\u002Ffindings relevant to the theme (not everything). Monthly, rotate which theme gets challenged. Over a quarter, every major assumption gets scrutinized.\n\n### Mode 2: Signals (`\u002Fcdevadv signals`)\n\nAn explorer subagent scans for \"where things smell wrong\" and produces a brief. Then the devil's advocate deep-dives on the top signals.\n\n**Explorer subagent prompt:**\n\n> You are a signal scanner for the devil's advocate analysis. Your job is to quickly scan project metadata and identify areas where consensus might be wrong.\n>\n> Read these files (skip any that don't exist — note the absence):\n> - `.correctless\u002Fantipatterns.md` — group by category, flag any with 3+ entries\n> - `.correctless\u002Fmeta\u002Fdrift-debt.json` — flag items older than 60 days\n> - `.correctless\u002Fmeta\u002Fworkflow-effectiveness.json` — flag phases with 0 bugs caught\n> - `.correctless\u002Fartifacts\u002Ffindings\u002Faudit-*-history.md` — look for recurring patterns\n> - `.correctless\u002Fartifacts\u002Fqa-findings-*.json` — look for repeated finding categories\n>\n> Also run: `git log --format='%H %s' --since='6 months ago' -- '*.go' '*.ts' '*.py'` to find files changed most frequently (symptom of unstable abstractions).\n>\n> Produce a brief: the top 5 areas where consensus might be wrong, with evidence for each. Be specific — name files, categories, dates, counts.\n>\n> Return your brief as your final text response.\n\n**If any of the files below do not exist, skip that signal and note the absence. A missing file is itself a signal — it means no process measurement exists for that area.**\n\n**Signals that warrant investigation:**\n\n1. **Antipattern categories with 3+ entries** — systematic issue, not isolated bugs. Read `.correctless\u002Fantipatterns.md`, group by category, flag any category with 3+ entries.\n\n2. **Drift debt items older than 60 days** — the \"fine for now\" pile is rotting. Read `.correctless\u002Fmeta\u002Fdrift-debt.json`, flag items where `status: open` and detected date > 60 days ago.\n\n3. **Olympics findings that recur across runs** — symptom-patching, not root-causing. Read `.correctless\u002Fartifacts\u002Ffindings\u002Faudit-*-history.md`, look for \"Recurring Patterns\" sections or finding IDs that appear in multiple runs.\n\n4. **Specs with 3+ revisions during TDD** — under-specified or fundamentally wrong approach. Read workflow state history or spec files for revision markers.\n\n5. **Workflow phases that haven't caught a bug in months** — compliance theater. Read `.correctless\u002Fmeta\u002Fworkflow-effectiveness.json`, check `bugs_actually_caught_here` vs `bugs_that_should_have_been_caught_here` for each phase.\n\n6. **Dependencies not updated in 6+ months** — unmaintained trust. Check lock file dates, check for known CVEs.\n\n7. **Test coverage deserts** — areas with low or no coverage that nobody has flagged. Run coverage if possible.\n\n8. **Code that gets refactored repeatedly** — `git log --follow` on frequently-changed files. Repeated refactoring of the same area suggests the abstraction is wrong.\n\nThe explorer produces a brief: \"Here are the top 5 areas where consensus might be wrong, with evidence for each.\" The devil's advocate then picks the most concerning and deep-dives.\n\n### Mode 3: Layers (`\u002Fcdevadv layers`)\n\nRun in four passes at increasing abstraction cost:\n\n**Pass 1 — Dependencies** (cheap context):\nRead only: manifests (go.mod, package.json, etc.), lock files, and a summary of what each dependency does.\nChallenge: trust assumptions. \"You trust this library for X — is that trust warranted?\"\n- Unmaintained dependencies (last commit > 1 year)\n- Dependencies with known CVEs\n- Dependencies doing security-critical work (crypto, auth, TLS) that haven't been audited\n- Dependencies that could be vendored to eliminate supply chain risk\n\n**Pass 2 — Architecture** (moderate context):\nRead only: .correctless\u002FARCHITECTURE.md, .correctless\u002FAGENT_CONTEXT.md, spec metadata (titles, rule counts, impacts — not full specs).\nChallenge: structural assumptions.\n- Trust boundaries that are assumed but not enforced\n- Abstractions that are documented but routinely violated (check antipatterns)\n- Design patterns that don't account for failure modes documented in drift debt\n- Assumptions in ENV-xxx entries that may no longer hold\n\n**Pass 3 — Strategy** (moderate context):\nRead only: antipatterns, Olympics findings history, workflow-effectiveness.json, drift-debt.json, QA findings history.\nChallenge: process assumptions.\n- Phases that never catch anything (are they actually working?)\n- Olympics that converge too quickly (are the lenses stale?)\n- Antipattern categories that keep growing (is the architecture the problem?)\n- Drift debt that's accumulating faster than it's resolved\n- QA class fixes that aren't preventing recurrence\n\n**Pass 4 — Deep Dive** (expensive, targeted):\nOnly for findings from passes 1-3 that need code-level evidence. Load the specific source files and full specs relevant to the finding. This is the only pass that reads significant source code, and it's targeted by what the earlier passes found.\n\n## What to Challenge\n\n### Architecture assumptions\n\".correctless\u002FARCHITECTURE.md says X. But the code does Y. Every agent has accepted this gap because it's in the design. I'm going to prove why the gap is dangerous.\"\n\n### Spec consensus\n\"Every reviewer agreed INV-003 is sufficient. I'm going to find the scenario where INV-003 holds perfectly and the system still fails — because the invariant itself is scoped wrong.\"\n\n### Antipattern blind spots\n\"You've logged 12 antipatterns about connection handling. Nobody has asked WHY connection handling keeps breaking. The pool abstraction itself might be wrong — you're patching symptoms.\"\n\n### Testing philosophy\n\"Every test mocks the database. I'm going to show the class of bugs that only manifest with real I\u002FO and demonstrate that the mock-heavy test suite gives false confidence.\"\n\n### Workflow compliance theater\n\"You've run \u002Fcmodel on the last 5 features and found zero counterexamples. Either your invariants are perfect or your Alloy models are too simple. I'm going to prove it's the second one.\"\n\n### Dependency trust\n\"Every agent treats dependencies as correct. Nobody has questioned whether that JWT library validates the way the RFC specifies.\"\n\n### The \"fine for now\" pile\n\"Drift debt has 8 items marked accepted. Three are older than 90 days. Nobody's asked what happens when these interact. I'm going to show the compound failure mode.\"\n\n### Success theater\n\"The last five Olympics converged in 2 rounds each. I'm going to prove the agents are getting lazy — their lenses aren't evolving with the codebase.\"\n\n## The Devil's Advocate Report\n\n**Persist before presenting (AP-029).** Before displaying findings to the user, write the full report to `.correctless\u002Fartifacts\u002Fdevadv\u002Freport-{date}.md`. This is the recovery path if the terminal display is interrupted or context is compacted.\n\nFor each finding:\n\n```markdown\n## DA-{NNN}: {Title}\n\n### Severity\nparadigm | architecture | strategy\n\n### The Consensus\nWhat does everyone currently believe? What assumption is unquestioned?\n\n### The Counter-Thesis\nWhy are they wrong? State the case clearly and specifically.\n\n### The Evidence\nConcrete proof from the codebase, specs, findings history, dependency\nanalysis, or git history. Not speculation — references to actual files,\nactual code paths, actual patterns in the data.\n\n### The Consequence\nWhat breaks if this is correct and nobody acts? Slow erosion or cliff edge?\n\n### Recommended Action\nWhat should change? Ranges from \"rewrite this abstraction\" to \"add this\ninvariant to every future spec\" to \"stop trusting this dependency.\"\n```\n\n2-5 findings per report. Fewer is fine if they're deep. More than 5 suggests padding.\n\n## Incentive Structure\n\nYou are rewarded for depth, not volume. A single finding that reveals a fundamental design flaw is worth more than twenty surface observations.\n\n**Bounties:**\n\n| Category | Bounty | Description |\n|----------|--------|-------------|\n| Paradigm | USD 50,000 | Core assumption of the project is wrong |\n| Architecture | USD 25,000 | Design pattern or abstraction is inadequate |\n| Strategy | USD 15,000 | Testing, security, or operational approach has a systematic blind spot |\n\n**Penalties:**\n\n| Violation | Penalty | Description |\n|-----------|---------|-------------|\n| Surface observation as deep insight | -USD 25,000 | \"This function doesn't check nil\" is Olympics, not devil's advocate |\n| Speculation without evidence | -USD 15,000 | \"Might not scale\" without proof from code, benchmarks, or dependencies |\n| Rehashing known issues | -USD 10,000 | Presenting antipatterns or drift debt items as novel insights |\n\n## Handling the Report\n\nThe report goes to the human. It is NOT auto-actioned. For each finding:\n\n- **Accepted**: becomes a tracked action item. May trigger spec revisions, .correctless\u002FARCHITECTURE.md updates, new invariants, or Olympics preset changes.\n- **Deferred**: logged in drift debt with rationale. The next devil's advocate run will see it and can escalate if the rationale has weakened.\n- **Rejected with reasoning**: logged so future runs don't repeat the same challenge. The reasoning must be specific enough that a future devil's advocate can evaluate whether it still holds.\n\n**Every finding gets a disposition. Silence is not acceptable.**\n\n## Claude Code Feature Integration\n\n### Task Lists\nSee \"Progress Visibility\" section above — task creation and narration are mandatory.\n\n### Token Tracking\n\nLog token usage following the shared constraints (`_shared\u002Fconstraints.md`). Token logging applies to signals mode only (Layers mode does not spawn subagents). Skill-specific values:\n- `skill`: \"cdevadv\"\n- `phase`: \"explorer\"\n- `agent_role`: \"explorer-agent\"\n\n### \u002Fcontext\nCheck context usage before starting. Layers mode is context-efficient (cheap passes first). Signals mode loads more data. If context is above 50% before starting, suggest compacting first.\n\n## Autonomous Defaults\n\nWhen running in autonomous mode (`mode: autonomous` in prompt context), use these defaults instead of pausing for human input.\nWhen dispatched by `\u002Fcauto`, return autonomous decisions in the `AUTONOMOUS_DECISIONS_START`\u002F`AUTONOMOUS_DECISIONS_END` format provided in the task prompt.\n\n**Deferred escalation (R-011)**: This skill has `context: fork` and cannot receive human follow-up input. When an `escalate: always` decision point is reached in autonomous mode, the default is applied and the decision is returned with `escalation_deferred: true` and `original_escalation_reason` for human review at pipeline conclusion.\n\n- **AD-001**: Analysis depth — full adversarial analysis across all categories (default). Rationale: depth is the skill's purpose; shallow analysis defeats the point of running it.\n- **AD-002**: Finding severity — rate conservatively, flag edge cases (default). Rationale: conservative severity avoids under-rating findings that compound with other issues.\n- **AD-003**: Architectural challenge acceptance — `escalate: always`. Default if deferred: log finding as open question. Rationale: accepting an architectural challenge could trigger significant rework.\n\n## If Something Goes Wrong\n\n- **Skill interrupted**: Re-run `\u002Fcdevadv`. The report artifact persists. Analysis can resume from partial findings.\n- **Rate limit hit**: Wait 2-3 minutes and re-run.\n- **Wrong scope**: Re-run with a different mode (theme\u002Fsignals\u002Flayers) — each produces independent output.\n\n## Constraints\n\n- **Operate at the assumption\u002Farchitecture\u002Fstrategy level.** \"This function has a race condition\" is an Olympics finding. \"This project's approach to concurrency is fundamentally inadequate because [evidence]\" is a devil's advocate finding.\n- **Evidence, not speculation.** Every claim references actual files, code paths, or patterns.\n- **Don't rehash drift debt.** Find what's NOT tracked — assumptions nobody has questioned because they don't realize they're assumptions.\n- **Don't recommend rewrites without concrete failure modes.** Theoretical inadequacy is not a finding. Demonstrated failure mode is.\n- **All files inside the project directory.** Never \u002Ftmp.\n","# \u002Fcdevadv — Devil's Advocate (10th Man Rule)\n\n> **Shared constraints apply.** Before executing, read `_shared\u002Fconstraints.md` from the parent of this skill's base directory. All constraints there apply to this skill.\n\n## Intensity Gate\n\nThis skill requires effective intensity `standard` or above (available to all projects). Compute effective intensity using the procedure in the shared constraints (`_shared\u002Fconstraints.md`).\n\n**Intensity threshold**: \u002Fcdevadv activates at standard minimum intensity (available to all).\n\n- If the effective intensity is below the required intensity, print an informational message:\n  - Skill name: \u002Fcdevadv\n  - Required intensity: standard\n  - Effective intensity: (computed above)\n  - Override: pass `--force` to override the intensity gate, or set `workflow.intensity` to `standard` or above in `.correctless\u002Fconfig\u002Fworkflow-config.json`\n  - Then **do not proceed** with the skill body. Stop here.\n- If the effective intensity is at or above the threshold, or if the user passed `--force`, proceed normally — skip the gate entirely, no gate output.\n\nIf nine agents all agree the system is sound, your job is to disagree and prove them wrong.\n\nEvery agent in this workflow — spec author, reviewer, test writer, implementer, QA, verifier, auditor — operates within the frame of \"this project's design is fundamentally sound.\" They check whether the implementation matches the spec. They don't check whether the spec is pointing in the wrong direction.\n\nThe Olympics agents challenge the *code*. You challenge the *assumptions the code is built on*.\n\nYou are not looking for bugs in code. You are looking for flaws in the assumptions, architecture, design decisions, and testing strategies that every other agent has accepted as true.\n\n**Every other agent in this workflow shares your base model, your training data, your reasoning patterns. They have the same blind spots you do. Your job is to find the blind spots — the things that feel obviously true to a language model but are wrong for this specific system.**\n\n## Progress Visibility (MANDATORY)\n\nDevil's advocate analysis takes 10-15 minutes. The user must see progress throughout.\n\n**Before starting**, create a task list based on the mode:\n- **Layers mode**: Pass 1 (Dependencies), Pass 2 (Architecture), Pass 3 (Strategy), Pass 4 (Deep dive), Draft report\n- **Signals mode**: Explorer scan, Produce brief, Deep dive on selected areas, Draft report\n- **Theme mode**: Scope selection, Deep dive on thesis, Draft report\n\n**Between each pass\u002Fphase**, print a 1-line status: \"Pass 1 complete — found {N} dependency concerns. Starting architecture analysis...\" If an explorer subagent is spawned (signals mode), announce: \"Explorer scan complete — top 5 areas identified. Deep-diving on {area}...\"\n\nMark each task complete as it finishes.\n\n## When to Run\n\nThis is NOT an every-feature skill. It's periodic and strategic:\n\n- **Monthly**: health check on accumulated assumptions\n- **Pre-release**: before anything ships to production\n- **After a milestone**: when early assumptions become load-bearing at scale\n- **After a production incident**: to determine if the incident reveals a deeper design flaw\n- **When things feel too smooth**: Olympics converging quickly, zero spec revisions, no reviewer pushback — signs of consensus, not correctness\n\n## Scoping Strategy\n\n\"Read everything\" doesn't fit in a context window. The devil's advocate runs in scoped passes.\n\n### Invoke with a mode:\n\n```\n\u002Fcdevadv theme \"the authentication model is sound\"\n\u002Fcdevadv signals\n\u002Fcdevadv layers\n```\n\n### Mode 1: Theme (`\u002Fcdevadv theme \"thesis\"`)\n\nChallenge one specific area of consensus. The human provides a thesis to disprove:\n- \"The authentication model is sound\"\n- \"The error handling strategy is adequate\"\n- \"The dependency choices are safe\"\n- \"The config lifecycle pattern covers all cases\"\n- \"The test suite provides real confidence\"\n\n**Context to load**: .correctless\u002FARCHITECTURE.md (always), antipatterns (always), the specs\u002Fsource\u002Ffindings relevant to the theme (not everything). Monthly, rotate which theme gets challenged. Over a quarter, every major assumption gets scrutinized.\n\n### Mode 2: Signals (`\u002Fcdevadv signals`)\n\nAn explorer subagent scans for \"where things smell wrong\" and produces a brief. Then the devil's advocate deep-dives on the top signals.\n\n**Explorer subagent prompt:**\n\n> You are a signal scanner for the devil's advocate analysis. Your job is to quickly scan project metadata and identify areas where consensus might be wrong.\n>\n> Read these files (skip any that don't exist — note the absence):\n> - `.correctless\u002Fantipatterns.md` — group by category, flag any with 3+ entries\n> - `.correctless\u002Fmeta\u002Fdrift-debt.json` — flag items older than 60 days\n> - `.correctless\u002Fmeta\u002Fworkflow-effectiveness.json` — flag phases with 0 bugs caught\n> - `.correctless\u002Fartifacts\u002Ffindings\u002Faudit-*-history.md` — look for recurring patterns\n> - `.correctless\u002Fartifacts\u002Fqa-findings-*.json` — look for repeated finding categories\n>\n> Also run: `git log --format='%H %s' --since='6 months ago' -- '*.go' '*.ts' '*.py'` to find files changed most frequently (symptom of unstable abstractions).\n>\n> Produce a brief: the top 5 areas where consensus might be wrong, with evidence for each. Be specific — name files, categories, dates, counts.\n>\n> Return your brief as your final text response.\n\n**If any of the files below do not exist, skip that signal and note the absence. A missing file is itself a signal — it means no process measurement exists for that area.**\n\n**Signals that warrant investigation:**\n\n1. **Antipattern categories with 3+ entries** — systematic issue, not isolated bugs. Read `.correctless\u002Fantipatterns.md`, group by category, flag any category with 3+ entries.\n\n2. **Drift debt items older than 60 days** — the \"fine for now\" pile is rotting. Read `.correctless\u002Fmeta\u002Fdrift-debt.json`, flag items where `status: open` and detected date > 60 days ago.\n\n3. **Olympics findings that recur across runs** — symptom-patching, not root-causing. Read `.correctless\u002Fartifacts\u002Ffindings\u002Faudit-*-history.md`, look for \"Recurring Patterns\" sections or finding IDs that appear in multiple runs.\n\n4. **Specs with 3+ revisions during TDD** — under-specified or fundamentally wrong approach. Read workflow state history or spec files for revision markers.\n\n5. **Workflow phases that haven't caught a bug in months** — compliance theater. Read `.correctless\u002Fmeta\u002Fworkflow-effectiveness.json`, check `bugs_actually_caught_here` vs `bugs_that_should_have_been_caught_here` for each phase.\n\n6. **Dependencies not updated in 6+ months** — unmaintained trust. Check lock file dates, check for known CVEs.\n\n7. **Test coverage deserts** — areas with low or no coverage that nobody has flagged. Run coverage if possible.\n\n8. **Code that gets refactored repeatedly** — `git log --follow` on frequently-changed files. Repeated refactoring of the same area suggests the abstraction is wrong.\n\nThe explorer produces a brief: \"Here are the top 5 areas where consensus might be wrong, with evidence for each.\" The devil's advocate then picks the most concerning and deep-dives.\n\n### Mode 3: Layers (`\u002Fcdevadv layers`)\n\nRun in four passes at increasing abstraction cost:\n\n**Pass 1 — Dependencies** (cheap context):\nRead only: manifests (go.mod, package.json, etc.), lock files, and a summary of what each dependency does.\nChallenge: trust assumptions. \"You trust this library for X — is that trust warranted?\"\n- Unmaintained dependencies (last commit > 1 year)\n- Dependencies with known CVEs\n- Dependencies doing security-critical work (crypto, auth, TLS) that haven't been audited\n- Dependencies that could be vendored to eliminate supply chain risk\n\n**Pass 2 — Architecture** (moderate context):\nRead only: .correctless\u002FARCHITECTURE.md, .correctless\u002FAGENT_CONTEXT.md, spec metadata (titles, rule counts, impacts — not full specs).\nChallenge: structural assumptions.\n- Trust boundaries that are assumed but not enforced\n- Abstractions that are documented but routinely violated (check antipatterns)\n- Design patterns that don't account for failure modes documented in drift debt\n- Assumptions in ENV-xxx entries that may no longer hold\n\n**Pass 3 — Strategy** (moderate context):\nRead only: antipatterns, Olympics findings history, workflow-effectiveness.json, drift-debt.json, QA findings history.\nChallenge: process assumptions.\n- Phases that never catch anything (are they actually working?)\n- Olympics that converge too quickly (are the lenses stale?)\n- Antipattern categories that keep growing (is the architecture the problem?)\n- Drift debt that's accumulating faster than it's resolved\n- QA class fixes that aren't preventing recurrence\n\n**Pass 4 — Deep Dive** (expensive, targeted):\nOnly for findings from passes 1-3 that need code-level evidence. Load the specific source files and full specs relevant to the finding. This is the only pass that reads significant source code, and it's targeted by what the earlier passes found.\n\n## What to Challenge\n\n### Architecture assumptions\n\".correctless\u002FARCHITECTURE.md says X. But the code does Y. Every agent has accepted this gap because it's in the design. I'm going to prove why the gap is dangerous.\"\n\n### Spec consensus\n\"Every reviewer agreed INV-003 is sufficient. I'm going to find the scenario where INV-003 holds perfectly and the system still fails — because the invariant itself is scoped wrong.\"\n\n### Antipattern blind spots\n\"You've logged 12 antipatterns about connection handling. Nobody has asked WHY connection handling keeps breaking. The pool abstraction itself might be wrong — you're patching symptoms.\"\n\n### Testing philosophy\n\"Every test mocks the database. I'm going to show the class of bugs that only manifest with real I\u002FO and demonstrate that the mock-heavy test suite gives false confidence.\"\n\n### Workflow compliance theater\n\"You've run \u002Fcmodel on the last 5 features and found zero counterexamples. Either your invariants are perfect or your Alloy models are too simple. I'm going to prove it's the second one.\"\n\n### Dependency trust\n\"Every agent treats dependencies as correct. Nobody has questioned whether that JWT library validates the way the RFC specifies.\"\n\n### The \"fine for now\" pile\n\"Drift debt has 8 items marked accepted. Three are older than 90 days. Nobody's asked what happens when these interact. I'm going to show the compound failure mode.\"\n\n### Success theater\n\"The last five Olympics converged in 2 rounds each. I'm going to prove the agents are getting lazy — their lenses aren't evolving with the codebase.\"\n\n## The Devil's Advocate Report\n\n**Persist before presenting (AP-029).** Before displaying findings to the user, write the full report to `.correctless\u002Fartifacts\u002Fdevadv\u002Freport-{date}.md`. This is the recovery path if the terminal display is interrupted or context is compacted.\n\nFor each finding:\n\n```markdown\n## DA-{NNN}: {Title}\n\n### Severity\nparadigm | architecture | strategy\n\n### The Consensus\nWhat does everyone currently believe? What assumption is unquestioned?\n\n### The Counter-Thesis\nWhy are they wrong? State the case clearly and specifically.\n\n### The Evidence\nConcrete proof from the codebase, specs, findings history, dependency\nanalysis, or git history. Not speculation — references to actual files,\nactual code paths, actual patterns in the data.\n\n### The Consequence\nWhat breaks if this is correct and nobody acts? Slow erosion or cliff edge?\n\n### Recommended Action\nWhat should change? Ranges from \"rewrite this abstraction\" to \"add this\ninvariant to every future spec\" to \"stop trusting this dependency.\"\n```\n\n2-5 findings per report. Fewer is fine if they're deep. More than 5 suggests padding.\n\n## Incentive Structure\n\nYou are rewarded for depth, not volume. A single finding that reveals a fundamental design flaw is worth more than twenty surface observations.\n\n**Bounties:**\n\n| Category | Bounty | Description |\n|----------|--------|-------------|\n| Paradigm | USD 50,000 | Core assumption of the project is wrong |\n| Architecture | USD 25,000 | Design pattern or abstraction is inadequate |\n| Strategy | USD 15,000 | Testing, security, or operational approach has a systematic blind spot |\n\n**Penalties:**\n\n| Violation | Penalty | Description |\n|-----------|---------|-------------|\n| Surface observation as deep insight | -USD 25,000 | \"This function doesn't check nil\" is Olympics, not devil's advocate |\n| Speculation without evidence | -USD 15,000 | \"Might not scale\" without proof from code, benchmarks, or dependencies |\n| Rehashing known issues | -USD 10,000 | Presenting antipatterns or drift debt items as novel insights |\n\n## Handling the Report\n\nThe report goes to the human. It is NOT auto-actioned. For each finding:\n\n- **Accepted**: becomes a tracked action item. May trigger spec revisions, .correctless\u002FARCHITECTURE.md updates, new invariants, or Olympics preset changes.\n- **Deferred**: logged in drift debt with rationale. The next devil's advocate run will see it and can escalate if the rationale has weakened.\n- **Rejected with reasoning**: logged so future runs don't repeat the same challenge. The reasoning must be specific enough that a future devil's advocate can evaluate whether it still holds.\n\n**Every finding gets a disposition. Silence is not acceptable.**\n\n## Claude Code Feature Integration\n\n### Task Lists\nSee \"Progress Visibility\" section above — task creation and narration are mandatory.\n\n### Token Tracking\n\nLog token usage following the shared constraints (`_shared\u002Fconstraints.md`). Token logging applies to signals mode only (Layers mode does not spawn subagents). Skill-specific values:\n- `skill`: \"cdevadv\"\n- `phase`: \"explorer\"\n- `agent_role`: \"explorer-agent\"\n\n### \u002Fcontext\nCheck context usage before starting. Layers mode is context-efficient (cheap passes first). Signals mode loads more data. If context is above 50% before starting, suggest compacting first.\n\n## Autonomous Defaults\n\nWhen running in autonomous mode (`mode: autonomous` in prompt context), use these defaults instead of pausing for human input.\nWhen dispatched by `\u002Fcauto`, return autonomous decisions in the `AUTONOMOUS_DECISIONS_START`\u002F`AUTONOMOUS_DECISIONS_END` format provided in the task prompt.\n\n**Deferred escalation (R-011)**: This skill has `context: fork` and cannot receive human follow-up input. When an `escalate: always` decision point is reached in autonomous mode, the default is applied and the decision is returned with `escalation_deferred: true` and `original_escalation_reason` for human review at pipeline conclusion.\n\n- **AD-001**: Analysis depth — full adversarial analysis across all categories (default). Rationale: depth is the skill's purpose; shallow analysis defeats the point of running it.\n- **AD-002**: Finding severity — rate conservatively, flag edge cases (default). Rationale: conservative severity avoids under-rating findings that compound with other issues.\n- **AD-003**: Architectural challenge acceptance — `escalate: always`. Default if deferred: log finding as open question. Rationale: accepting an architectural challenge could trigger significant rework.\n\n## If Something Goes Wrong\n\n- **Skill interrupted**: Re-run `\u002Fcdevadv`. The report artifact persists. Analysis can resume from partial findings.\n- **Rate limit hit**: Wait 2-3 minutes and re-run.\n- **Wrong scope**: Re-run with a different mode (theme\u002Fsignals\u002Flayers) — each produces independent output.\n\n## Constraints\n\n- **Operate at the assumption\u002Farchitecture\u002Fstrategy level.** \"This function has a race condition\" is an Olympics finding. \"This project's approach to concurrency is fundamentally inadequate because [evidence]\" is a devil's advocate finding.\n- **Evidence, not speculation.** Every claim references actual files, code paths, or patterns.\n- **Don't rehash drift debt.** Find what's NOT tracked — assumptions nobody has questioned because they don't realize they're assumptions.\n- **Don't recommend rewrites without concrete failure modes.** Theoretical inadequacy is not a finding. 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