stress-test-assumption-challenge

name	stress-test-assumption-challenge
description	Strategy: Military-grade assumption testing — Key Assumptions Check, Devil's Advocacy, Team A/B analysis to expose hidden dependencies and unexamined beliefs.
type	strategy
tactics	["assumption-cascade","structured-attack-campaign"]
dependencies	{"tactics":["assumption-cascade","structured-attack-campaign"],"sops":["assumption-cascade-tracer","devils-advocacy","finding-aggregation","key-assumptions-check","probe-execution"]}

Assumption Challenge Strategy

Military ACT (Analytic Confidence Testing): systematically surface and attack assumptions underlying the artifact.

Method

1. key-assumptions-check enumerates all assumptions (explicit and implicit)
2. Assumptions sorted by criticality and evidence strength
3. devils-advocacy constructs strongest counter-argument for each critical assumption
4. Team A defends assumptions, Team B attacks — structured exchange
5. assumption-cascade-tracer maps dependency chains from root assumptions
6. Failed assumptions trigger cascade analysis to identify downstream impacts

Budget Table

Parameter	S	M	L
Attack vectors	5	12	20
Probing rounds	3	6	10
Personas	2	4	6
Assumption checks	5	10	20

Orchestration

key-assumptions-check → [enumerate and rank assumptions]
→ [for each critical assumption]:
    devils-advocacy (construct counter-argument)
    → probe-execution (test assumption)
    → assumption-cascade-tracer (map dependencies)
→ finding-aggregation → attack-resilience-scoring

Subagents

• key-assumptions-check (enumeration and ranking)
• devils-advocacy (counter-argument construction)
• probe-execution (assumption testing)
• assumption-cascade-tracer (dependency mapping)
• finding-aggregation (result synthesis)

Available Tactics

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

Tactic	When to use
assumption-cascade	Tactic: Surface assumptions, sort by dependency, attack root assumptions first, then trace cascade failures through the dependency graph.
structured-attack-campaign	Tactic: Full attack lifecycle — threat surface enumeration, attack vector generation, systematic probing, and finding aggregation across all surfaces.

Available SOPs

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

SOP	When to use
assumption-cascade-tracer	Build assumption dependency graphs and trace cascade failures when root assumptions are invalidated.
devils-advocacy	Construct the strongest possible counter-argument against a position, steelmanning the opposition before attacking.
finding-aggregation	Aggregate, deduplicate, and classify findings from multiple probes into a coherent vulnerability report.
key-assumptions-check	Military ACT: systematically enumerate all assumptions, classify by type, and evaluate evidence strength supporting each.
probe-execution	Execute a single attack probe against an artifact, record the result with evidence and severity classification.