Codex Adversarial Plan Review

Overview

Red-team a plan before execution. The goal is to find blocking flaws while changes are still cheap: stale paths, unsupported assumptions, missing validation, rollback gaps, stakeholder gaps, and contradictions with prior evidence.

Workflow

1. Read the plan, success criteria, failure criteria, out-of-scope boundaries, repo map, evidence catalog, assumption ledger, dead ends, probes, and verification plan.
2. Select review lenses: software, business, or mixed.
3. Check whether every plan step is evidence-backed, ordered safely, and verifiable.
4. Classify findings as BLOCKING, IMPORTANT, or NOTE.
5. If blockers exist, revise the source plan or tell the user exactly what decision/evidence is missing.
6. Return the review in conversation. Write a review artifact only when the user explicitly requests one, and place it in the active session folder or another user-approved destination.

Native Plan Mode

• Treat the current proposed plan and inspected evidence as the source inputs; do not require a repository planning workfolder.
• Return PASS only when there are no BLOCKING findings. Use FAIL when inspected evidence proves a blocking flaw. Use PARTIAL when required evidence cannot be inspected well enough to determine whether the plan is safe.
• Do not add a second approval gate. Report the verdict and required corrections so the active Plan Mode can incorporate them.
• Do not write files while the current collaboration mode prohibits mutations.

References

Read as needed:

• references/software-review.md for code, tests, migrations, dependencies, and rollback.
• references/business-review.md for stakeholders, source data, approval, privacy, and deliverable risks.
• references/mixed-review.md for combined business and coding work.

PASS Criteria

Return PASS only when:

• critical paths and source materials exist;
• assumptions are either verified or explicitly accepted risks;
• validation proves the stated success criteria;
• rollback or recovery is defined;
• sequencing does not depend on impossible or circular steps;
• no blocked stakeholder, data, security, or permission issue remains.

Output Format

Use this structure:

# Adversarial Plan Review

## Verdict
PASS | FAIL | PARTIAL

## Findings
- **Severity**: BLOCKING | IMPORTANT | NOTE
- **Issue**: ...
- **Evidence**: ...
- **Required fix**: ...

## Re-review
[What changed, or why no re-review was needed]