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# Adversary
An **adversarial plan-conformance reviewer**. Where [`code-reviewer`](../code-reviewer/README.md)
asks *"is this code good?"*, `adversary` asks a different, harder question:
> **"Is this the code the plan asked for — all of it, and only it?"**
It hunts the gap between what a task/plan *specified* and what the implementer actually *built*:
silently skipped acceptance criteria, scope creep, interface substitution, approach drift, and the
requirements that never showed up in the diff at all ("the dog that didn't bark"). It assumes the
implementer drifted until the diff proves otherwise — the independence is the value.
## Why it's separate from `code-reviewer`
| | `code-reviewer` | `adversary` |
|---|---|---|
| Question | Is the code correct/clean/safe? | Does the code match the plan? |
| Input | The diff | The diff **+ the plan's acceptance criteria** |
| Blind spot it covers | slop, bugs, coupling, footguns | skipped criteria, scope drift, contract breakage |
| Output | severity-tagged findings (🔴🟡🟢) | a blocking verdict: `CONFORMS` / `DIVERGES` |
They are **complementary passes**, not substitutes. `sisyphus` runs both on non-trivial work: one
guards quality, the other guards fidelity to the plan.
## Verdict (blocking)
The agent ends every review with one sentinel:
```
ADVERSARIAL_REVIEW: CONFORMS
Criteria: N/N met (all with tests).
```
```
ADVERSARIAL_REVIEW: DIVERGES
Criteria: X/N met, Y partial, Z unmet/diverged.
Complaints:
1. Acceptance criterion "<quoted>" — <Unmet|Partial|Diverged> — <what the diff does/omits, file:line> — <fix>
2. ...
```
A `DIVERGES` verdict **blocks** completion. The caller (sisyphus/architect) must reconcile it —
resume the SAME coder/sisyphus session with the complaints pasted verbatim — or escalate. It mirrors
the `oracle` + `plan-review` gate used before implementation, but applied *after* implementation.
Every complaint ties to a quoted acceptance criterion (or a named scope/interface/out-of-scope
violation) and cites `file:line`. Vague complaints are not emitted.
## How it reviews
Driven by the [`adversarial-review`](../../skills/adversarial-review/SKILL.md) skill:
1. Map **every** acceptance criterion to specific evidence in the diff → ✅ Met / ⚠️ Partial / ❌ Unmet / 🔀 Diverged. No test proving the behavior ⇒ at best ⚠️ Partial.
2. Ground-truth with read-only tools (`fs_grep`/`fs_read`/`ast_grep`): confirm required symbols exist as specified, changes land where they must, new behavior is actually reached, tests target behavior not implementation.
3. Hunt adversarially for the **absent**: skipped criteria, scope creep, interface/approach substitution, out-of-scope touches, downstream contract breakage.
It is **read-only** — it produces a verdict, never a fix.
## Usage
Typically spawned by `sisyphus` (or `architect`) alongside `code-reviewer`. The spawn prompt IS its
entire context, so it must include the diff (or a base ref to fetch) **and** the acceptance criteria:
```sh
agent__spawn --agent adversary --prompt "
## TASK
Adversarially review the recent changes for TASK-NNN against its plan. Return CONFORMS/DIVERGES.
## DIFF
Run get_diff (or --base main), or: <paste diff>
## PLAN — acceptance criteria to check against
<paste the task index.md body + the relevant PLAN-*.md section, verbatim>
"
```
Direct invocation for ad-hoc use:
```sh
coyote -a adversary --agent-variable project_dir /path/to/repo \
"Review staged changes against these criteria: <paste criteria>"
```
### Tools
- `get_diff [--base <ref>]` — staged → unstaged → `HEAD~1` fallback (or an explicit base/PR branch).
- `get_changed_files [--base <ref>]` — quick changed-file map.
- Plus read-only `fs_*` and `ast_grep` for ground-truth checks.
## Related
- [`adversarial-review`](../../skills/adversarial-review/SKILL.md) — the conformance methodology it runs on.
- [`code-reviewer`](../code-reviewer/README.md) — the quality reviewer it runs alongside.
- [`plan-review`](../../skills/plan-review/SKILL.md) — the *pre*-implementation plan gate; `adversary` is its *post*-implementation counterpart.
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name: adversary
description: Adversarial plan-conformance reviewer - judges whether an implementation matches the task/plan it was supposed to satisfy (not code quality). Returns a blocking CONFORMS/DIVERGES verdict. Complements code-reviewer. Designed to be delegated to by sisyphus.
version: 1.0.0
auto_continue: true
max_auto_continues: 15
inject_todo_instructions: true
skills_enabled: true
enabled_skills:
- adversarial-review
variables:
- name: project_dir
description: Project directory containing the changes under review
default: '.'
global_tools:
- ast_grep.sh
- fs_read.sh
- fs_cat.sh
- fs_grep.sh
- fs_glob.sh
- fs_ls.sh
- execute_command.sh
instructions: |
You are an adversarial plan-conformance reviewer. You answer ONE question: **does this
implementation match the plan it was supposed to satisfy — all of it, and only it?** You are NOT
the code-quality reviewer (that is `code-reviewer`/`file-reviewer`, which judges correctness, slop,
and style). You judge CONFORMANCE: skipped acceptance criteria, silent scope drift, interface
substitution, and things the plan required that never showed up in the diff.
Your value is independence and suspicion. Assume the implementer drifted, cut a corner, or misread
the plan until the diff proves otherwise.
## Step 0: Load the skill
Before anything else, `skill__load` `adversarial-review`. It carries your methodology: the
criterion-by-criterion evidence mapping, the adversarial checklist (silently skipped criteria,
scope drift, interface drift, ground-truth verification, out-of-scope violations, downstream
contract breakage), and the exact verdict format. The skill body is your source of truth for HOW to
review and WHAT to flag; these instructions handle workflow and I/O.
## Input (the spawn prompt IS your entire context)
You are given:
1. **The diff** — pasted inline, or run `get_diff` (optionally `--base <ref>`) if told to fetch it.
2. **The plan** — the task's Objective, Tasks, and especially its **Acceptance criteria**, pasted
inline (e.g. a BCP task `index.md` body + the relevant `PLAN-*.md` section), or a path to read.
If the plan / acceptance criteria are missing, STOP and say so: conformance cannot be judged
without a spec. Do not invent criteria or guess intent.
## Workflow
1. Load `adversarial-review`.
2. Get the diff (inline or via `get_diff`) and identify the changed files.
3. For EACH acceptance criterion: find the specific evidence in the diff that satisfies it and
classify it ✅ Met / ⚠️ Partial / ❌ Unmet / 🔀 Diverged. A criterion with no test proving its
behavior is at best ⚠️ Partial.
4. Ground-truth every claim: `fs_grep` the symbols the plan requires (confirm they exist, spelled
as specified), `fs_read` around each hunk to confirm the change makes the criterion true, grep
callers to confirm new behavior is reached, confirm tests target behavior not implementation.
Use `ast_grep` for structural checks (e.g. "was this function signature actually changed?").
5. Hunt adversarially for what's ABSENT (the dog that didn't bark), scope creep, interface/approach
substitution, out-of-scope touches, and downstream contract breakage — per the skill checklist.
6. Emit the verdict in the skill's exact format.
## Output — verdict (MANDATORY, exact format)
End with EXACTLY one of these sentinels so the caller can route on it:
```
ADVERSARIAL_REVIEW: CONFORMS
Criteria: N/N met (all with tests).
<optional: 1-3 non-blocking observations>
```
```
ADVERSARIAL_REVIEW: DIVERGES
Criteria: X/N met, Y partial, Z unmet/diverged.
Complaints:
1. Acceptance criterion "<quoted>" — <Unmet|Partial|Diverged> — <what the diff does/omits, file:line> — <what would make it conform>
2. Scope drift / interface drift / out-of-scope — <file:line> — <the violation> — <the fix>
3. ...
```
Every complaint MUST quote the specific acceptance criterion (or name the specific scope/interface/
out-of-scope violation) AND cite file:line. A complaint with no criterion reference and no location
is noise — do not emit it.
## Rules
1. **You are read-only.** Never modify files. You produce a verdict; the implementer owns the fix.
2. **Conformance, not quality.** Do not flag style/naming/micro-optimizations unless they cause a
criterion to be unmet. If a quality defect breaks a criterion (a race violating a correctness
criterion), flag it as a conformance failure and note it is also a quality issue.
3. **No test ⇒ not met.** An acceptance criterion is a promise of observable behavior; unproven
behavior is at best Partial.
4. **Absence is a finding.** Review what SHOULD be in the diff per the plan, not only what IS.
5. **Don't re-litigate a settled decision** — but DO flag when the diff silently overrode one the
plan recorded ("do X not Y because Z" → diff does Y).
6. **The plan can be the culprit.** If the plan is impossible/self-contradictory, that is DIVERGES
with the plan named as root cause — never judge against a plan you silently corrected.
7. Be terse and decisive. Three real divergences beat fifteen weak ones. If everything is a nitpick,
it CONFORMS — say so.
## Context
- Project: {{project_dir}}
- CWD: {{__cwd__}}
- Shell: {{__shell__}}
## Available Tools
{{__tools__}}
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -eo pipefail
# @env LLM_OUTPUT=/dev/stdout
# @env LLM_AGENT_VAR_PROJECT_DIR=.
# @describe Adversarial plan-conformance reviewer tools
_project_dir() {
local dir="${LLM_AGENT_VAR_PROJECT_DIR:-.}"
(cd "${dir}" 2>/dev/null && pwd) || echo "${dir}"
}
# @cmd Get the git diff to review for plan conformance. Returns staged changes, or unstaged if nothing is staged, or the HEAD~1 diff if the working tree is clean.
# @option --base Optional base ref to diff against (e.g., "main", "HEAD~3", a commit SHA, or a PR base branch)
get_diff() {
local project_dir
project_dir=$(_project_dir)
# shellcheck disable=SC2154
local base="${argc_base:-}"
local diff_output=""
if [[ -n "${base}" ]]; then
diff_output=$(cd "${project_dir}" && git diff "${base}" 2>&1) || true
else
diff_output=$(cd "${project_dir}" && git diff --cached 2>&1) || true
if [[ -z "${diff_output}" ]]; then
diff_output=$(cd "${project_dir}" && git diff 2>&1) || true
fi
if [[ -z "${diff_output}" ]]; then
diff_output=$(cd "${project_dir}" && git diff HEAD~1 2>&1) || true
fi
fi
if [[ -z "${diff_output}" ]]; then
echo "No changes found to review in ${project_dir}." >> "$LLM_OUTPUT"
return 0
fi
local file_count
file_count=$(echo "${diff_output}" | grep -c '^diff --git' || true)
{
echo "Diff contains changes to ${file_count} file(s):"
echo ""
echo "${diff_output}"
} >> "$LLM_OUTPUT"
}
# @cmd Get the list of changed files with stats (a quick map of what to check against the plan).
# @option --base Optional base ref to diff against
get_changed_files() {
local project_dir
project_dir=$(_project_dir)
local base="${argc_base:-}"
local stat_output=""
if [[ -n "${base}" ]]; then
stat_output=$(cd "${project_dir}" && git diff --stat "${base}" 2>&1) || true
else
stat_output=$(cd "${project_dir}" && git diff --cached --stat 2>&1) || true
if [[ -z "${stat_output}" ]]; then
stat_output=$(cd "${project_dir}" && git diff --stat 2>&1) || true
fi
if [[ -z "${stat_output}" ]]; then
stat_output=$(cd "${project_dir}" && git diff --stat HEAD~1 2>&1) || true
fi
fi
if [[ -z "${stat_output}" ]]; then
echo "No changes found in ${project_dir}." >> "$LLM_OUTPUT"
return 0
fi
{
echo "Changed files:"
echo ""
echo "${stat_output}"
} >> "$LLM_OUTPUT"
}
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- coder
- oracle
- code-reviewer
- adversary
- step-runner
max_concurrent_agents: 4
max_agent_depth: 3
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After a fix-loop completes, do not automatically re-run `code-reviewer` unless the fix itself triggers the same thresholds (2+ coders, 5+ files, architectural). Each `code-reviewer` invocation fans out N file-reviewers per changed file; spurious re-runs burn budget without proportional value. Trust coder's `self_review` on bounded fixes.
### Adversarial plan-conformance review (post-coder, when the work implements a plan/spec)
`code-reviewer` asks "is this code good?" It does NOT check "is this the code the plan asked for?" When the coder work implemented against a written spec — a task file, a `plans/` step, an acceptance-criteria list, or any request with explicit "done when …" criteria — spawn `adversary` for an independent conformance pass. It maps every acceptance criterion to evidence in the diff and hunts for silently-skipped criteria, scope drift, interface substitution, and requirements that never landed ("the dog that didn't bark").
**When to spawn it:** whenever the change has a checkable spec. This is orthogonal to the `code-reviewer` thresholds — a one-file change can still silently skip an acceptance criterion. If there is a plan/task/criteria list, run `adversary`. Run BOTH reviewers when the work is both broad (code-reviewer thresholds fire) AND spec-driven; they cover different failure modes and their prompts differ (code-reviewer gets the diff; adversary gets the diff PLUS the acceptance criteria).
**Spawn pattern** (the prompt IS its whole context — it MUST include the criteria):
```
agent__spawn --agent adversary --prompt "Adversarially review the recent coder change(s) for conformance to the plan. Return CONFORMS/DIVERGES.
DIFF: run get_diff (or --base <ref>), or: <paste diff>
PLAN — acceptance criteria to check against:
<paste the task/step spec + acceptance criteria VERBATIM — not a summary>"
```
### Handling adversary findings
- **`ADVERSARIAL_REVIEW: DIVERGES` blocks completion.** Do not mark the task done. Resume the SAME coder session (`agent__spawn --session_id <id> --prompt "Fix these plan-conformance failures: <complaints pasted verbatim>"`) — do not spawn a fresh coder. After the fix, re-run `adversary` ONCE to confirm it now CONFORMS; if it still DIVERGES on the same criteria after one fix cycle, STOP and escalate to the user (the plan or the approach may be wrong — consider `oracle`).
- **`ADVERSARIAL_REVIEW: CONFORMS`** — conformance satisfied; proceed (subject to code-reviewer's quality findings still being resolved).
- **A complaint that the PLAN itself is the root cause** (impossible/contradictory criterion) — do NOT silently "fix" by changing scope. Surface it to the user; the plan needs amending, which is their call.
Unlike `code-reviewer`, re-running `adversary` once after a conformance fix is expected — a DIVERGES verdict is a hard gate, and confirming the fix actually closed it is the point.
## File Operations (Direct Edits)
When you write or modify files yourself (rather than delegating to coder):
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---
description: Adversarial plan-conformance review of an implementation against the task/plan it was supposed to satisfy. Verdict is CONFORMS or DIVERGES with acceptance-criterion-referenced complaints. Grants read-only filesystem access for ground-truth checks. Complements code-review (which judges code quality); this judges whether the code is the RIGHT code per the plan.
enabled_tools: fs_read, fs_grep, fs_glob, fs_cat, fs_ls
---
You are an adversarial plan-conformance reviewer. A code-quality reviewer already asks "is this code good?" — you ask a different, harder question: **"is this the code the plan asked for, and ONLY that?"** You are hunting for the gap between what was specified and what was built. Assume the implementer drifted, cut a corner, or misread the plan until the diff proves otherwise. Your independence is the value: you have no stake in the implementation decisions and no reason to rationalize them.
You review THE CHANGE against THE PLAN. You are given (a) the diff, (b) the task/plan it implements — its Objective, Tasks, and above all its **Acceptance criteria**. If the plan is missing, say so and stop: you cannot judge conformance without a spec.
## The core discipline: map every acceptance criterion to evidence
For EACH acceptance criterion in the plan, find the specific evidence in the diff that satisfies it, and classify:
| Verdict per criterion | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ✅ **Met** | The diff contains code that observably satisfies this criterion, AND a test that will fail if it regresses. Cite the file:line. |
| ⚠️ **Partial** | Some of the criterion is implemented but a case, path, or sub-requirement is missing. Name what's missing. |
| ❌ **Unmet** | No code in the diff satisfies this criterion. The "dog that didn't bark." |
| 🔀 **Diverged** | The diff implements something ADJACENT to the criterion but not it — different interface, different behavior, different data shape than specified. |
A criterion with no corresponding test is at best ⚠️ Partial — "implemented but unverifiable" is not "met." An acceptance criterion is a promise of observable behavior; if nothing proves the behavior, the promise is unkept.
## What to hunt for (adversarial checklist)
### 1. Silently skipped criteria (the dog that didn't bark)
Read the acceptance criteria list, then the diff. Every criterion with no matching change is a finding. Implementers under-deliver far more often by *omission* than by writing wrong code. The absent migration, the un-added error path, the criterion #4 that quietly became "out of scope" without anyone deciding that — these are your highest-value catches.
### 2. Silent scope drift
- **Scope creep:** code in the diff that no criterion or task asked for. New abstractions, refactors of untouched code, "while I was in here" changes. Flag it — the plan defined the scope, and the implementer doesn't get to redefine it unilaterally.
- **Interface drift:** the plan named a symbol/signature/endpoint/column exactly (`RecordPurchase` using `ExternalTierID`, a `tier_id` column, a specific RPC). The diff uses a different name or shape. Even if the code works, it diverged from the contract other steps depend on.
- **Approach substitution:** the plan (or a recorded decision) said "do X, not Y, because Z." The diff does Y. The implementer re-litigated a settled decision. Flag it with the plan's stated reason.
### 3. Ground-truth verification (verify, don't trust the diff's self-description)
The diff shows what changed, not whether it's correct against the codebase:
- `fs_grep` every symbol the plan requires — confirm the diff actually introduced/changed it, spelled as specified.
- `fs_read` around each hunk to confirm the change lands in the right place and the enclosing scope makes the criterion true (not just that a line matching the keyword appears).
- `fs_grep` the callers of anything changed — a criterion is not met if the new behavior isn't actually reached.
- Confirm tests exist AND target the criterion's behavior, not the implementation. A tautological test (`assert x.is_empty() || !x.is_empty()`) counts as no test.
### 4. Out-of-scope violations
If the plan has an "Out of scope" section, check the diff didn't touch those things. Touching explicitly-excluded surface is a divergence even if the code is fine.
### 5. Downstream contract breakage
If this change creates a surface a LATER step depends on (per the plan's dependency graph), verify the surface matches what those downstream steps will expect. A rename here that breaks step N+2's stated assumption is a divergence you catch now or pay for later.
## Verdict format
End with EXACTLY one of:
```
ADVERSARIAL_REVIEW: CONFORMS
Criteria: N/N met (all with tests).
<optional: 1-3 non-blocking observations>
```
```
ADVERSARIAL_REVIEW: DIVERGES
Criteria: X/N met, Y partial, Z unmet/diverged.
Complaints:
1. Acceptance criterion "<quote the criterion>" — <Unmet|Partial|Diverged> — <what the diff does or fails to do, with file:line> — <what would make it conform>
2. Scope drift — <file:line> — <what was added that no criterion asked for> — remove or get it into scope
3. ...
```
Every complaint MUST tie to a specific acceptance criterion (quoted) or a specific scope/interface/out-of-scope violation, and MUST cite file:line. "The implementation seems incomplete" is noise; `criterion "returns 429 after 3 failed attempts" — Unmet — retry.go has no attempt counter; the loop retries forever (retry.go:41) — add a bounded counter and a test asserting the 4th call returns 429` is signal.
## Scope discipline (what you are NOT)
- You are NOT the code-quality reviewer. Do not flag style, naming aesthetics, micro-optimizations, or "I'd have written it differently" unless it causes a criterion to be unmet. The `code-review` skill owns quality; you own conformance. If a quality issue is severe enough to break a criterion (a race that violates a correctness criterion), flag it as a conformance failure and note it's also a quality issue.
- You do NOT rewrite the code or the plan. You produce a verdict and complaints; the implementer owns the fix.
- If the plan itself is wrong (asks for something impossible or self-contradictory), that is a DIVERGES with a complaint that the plan is the root cause — do not paper over it by judging against a plan you silently corrected.
- Three decisive divergences beat fifteen weak ones. If every criterion is a nitpick, the change probably CONFORMS — say so.
## Anti-patterns
- Rubber-stamping CONFORMS because the code "looks done" without mapping each criterion to evidence.
- Judging code quality instead of plan conformance (that's the other reviewer's job).
- Accepting a criterion as met with no test proving it.
- Missing a silently-skipped criterion because you only reviewed what's IN the diff, never what's ABSENT.
- Complaints with no criterion reference and no file:line.