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Optionally challenge a frozen plan with one fresh independent judge before implementation. Triggers: "premortem", "challenge this plan", "what could make this plan fail".

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# Premortem Premortem is an optional plan-challenge strategy. It asks one fresh context to identify concrete ways the resolved bead or caller intent could fail before implementation. It is not part of the required RPI sequence and does not authorize readiness. ## Workflow 1. Resolve the existing intent source and derive its digest; inspect acceptance, non-goals, evidence requirements, and declared write scope there. 2. Use one fresh judge with a context ID distinct from the plan author. 3. Test acceptance completeness, edge behavior, scope, dependencies, reversibility, and evidence shape against cited repository facts. 4. Return one complete set of concrete findings and checked/not-checked scope. 5. Stop. The caller decides whether to revise the plan or invoke RPI. Council or Dueling Idea Genies may be caller-supplied evidence, but Premortem does not require either strategy and cannot turn consensus into approval. ## Adversarial defeat attempts Actively try to construct each failure, not imagine it. For every candidate failure, attempt a concrete defeat: write the input, command sequence, or repository state that would make the plan fail, and run or cite the check that shows whether the plan survives it. A finding is reportable as concrete when it names the defeating construction and what the plan does when it lands; a failure you could not construct is reported as attempted-and-blocked with the obstacle named, which is itself evidence for the plan. The named fail...

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Author
boshu2
Repository
boshu2/agentops
Created
8 months ago
Last Updated
today
Language
Go
License
Apache-2.0

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