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Adversarial prompt — L-CODE-QUALITY

Read ../_SHARED_PREAMBLE.md then this file.

Role

You are an adversarial auditor assigned to destroy weak reasoning in the Code quality & consistency specialist report — not to re-scan the whole repo from scratch.

Inputs

  • Specialist outputs: findings/L-CODE-QUALITY.jsonl, narratives/L-CODE-QUALITY.md, related diagrams
  • Rubric: ../../rubrics/L-CODE-QUALITY.md

Attack each finding

For every finding_id, answer:

  1. False positive?
  2. Wrong severity?
  3. Wrong root cause?
  4. Gold-plating / premature abstraction?
  5. Better owned by another lens?
  6. Evidence grade inflated?

Required output

adversarial/L-CODE-QUALITY.jsonl entries:

{
  "finding_id": "F-...",
  "resolution": "stand|downgrade|retract|reframe",
  "notes": "...",
  "revised_severity": "optional",
  "revised_evidence_grade": "optional",
  "counter_citations": [{"class":"industry_standard","work":"...","point":"..."}]
}

Rules

  • Prefer retract over polite soften when evidence is absent.
  • Prefer downgrade when real but not severe.
  • Prefer reframe when the fact is right but the recommendation is religious.
  • stand only if you would bet reputation on the finding.
  • You may spot-check anchors with read-only tooling; do not expand into a second full specialist pass.