WIP: Add challenge-premise red-team review prompt - #6274
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Add .agent/prompts/challenge-premise.md, a reusable prompt for red-teaming a change that rests on a load-bearing assumption: state the assumption, try to disprove it with repo config/docs, and check whether the repo already solves the problem another way. Runs alongside the normal correctness review. Matches the existing .agent/prompts/outdated-agent-rules.md style (plain prose, no frontmatter). Prompts are invoked on demand, so no rules/cursor symlink. Co-authored-by: Isaac
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8 interesting tests: 4 SKIP, 3 KNOWN, 1 RECOVERED
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.agent/prompts/challenge-premise.md— a reusable prompt for red-teaming a change that rests on a load-bearing assumption (a claim about how a tool, API, the repo, or the codebase behaves).Why
Content-focused reviews verify that a change is built correctly but rarely question whether its premise is true. A recent change was proposed on the assumption that "Claude Code can't discover
.agent/rules/" — every correctness reviewer approved it, yet the premise was false (the repo already wires those rules to Claude via a.claude/rulessymlink). A red-team prompt run with this framing caught it in one pass. This codifies that prompt so it's reusable instead of retyped.What
The prompt asks the reviewer to assume the implementation is correct and instead: state the load-bearing assumption, try to disprove it with repo config/docs, explain what makes the change redundant or worse than the status quo, and identify the simplest alternative.
Matches the existing
.agent/prompts/outdated-agent-rules.mdstyle (plain prose, no frontmatter). Prompts are invoked on demand, so no.claude/rulesor.cursor/rulessymlink is needed.Notes
.nextchanges/fragment.This pull request and its description were written by Isaac.