davila7__claude-code-templates/dashboard/public/component-content/loops/evaluation/devils-advocate-loop.json

{"content": "---\nname: devils-advocate-loop\ndescription: Adversarially challenges a design or decision until every serious objection is resolved or explicitly accepted.\ncategory: evaluation\ninterval: 15m\nstop-condition: No unresolved serious objections remain — each is fixed or consciously accepted with rationale.\ncomponents: [agent:expert-advisors/architect-review, agent:expert-advisors/critical-thinking, command:git-workflow/pr-review]\ntags: [evaluation, design-review, decision-making, loop]\n---\n\n# Devil's-Advocate Loop\n\n> **Loop Engineering** — put a dedicated critic in the loop. It keeps attacking the design until the proposal survives scrutiny or is knowingly accepted with its trade-offs.\n\n## 🎯 Goal\nStress-test a design, RFC, or architectural decision by generating the strongest possible objections, then resolving or explicitly accepting each one — no objection silently ignored.\n\n## ⏱️ Schedule\nSuggested interval: `15m` (or run until the design is settled).\n\n## ▶️ Run it\n```\n/loop 15m \"Act as a devil's advocate against the current design. Raise the strongest objections (scaling, security, cost, edge cases, maintainability). For each, either fix the design or record an explicit accepted trade-off with rationale. Continue until no serious objection is unresolved.\"\n```\n\n## 🔁 Iteration steps\n1. **Perceive** — read the current design/decision.\n2. **Reason** — the `critical-thinking` agent generates the strongest counter-arguments.\n3. **Plan** — for each objection, choose fix vs accept-with-rationale.\n4. **Act** — update the design or the decision log; `architect-review` validates the revision.\n5. **Observe** — re-run with `/pr-review`; stop only when nothing serious is unresolved.\n\n## 🛑 Stopping condition\nEvery serious objection is either resolved or recorded as an explicit, justified trade-off.\n\n## 🧩 Referenced components\n- `agent:expert-advisors/architect-review` — validates each revision.\n- `agent:expert-advisors/critical-thinking` — generates adversarial objections.\n- `command:git-workflow/pr-review` — structured review of the design changes.\n\n## 💡 Example\nA proposed single-region database is challenged on availability; the loop either adds a replication plan or records \"single-region accepted for MVP, revisit at scale\" with reasoning.\n"}