/gaia-adversarial

user-facing
Category:
Creative & Collaboration
Lifecycle phase:
Any
Arguments:
[topic or challenge]

What it does

/gaia-adversarial performs a cynical, skeptical adversarial review to surface flaws, gaps, and weaknesses in any document, design, or code. It assumes nothing works as claimed and attacks from multiple angles -- technical, business, user, security, and scale. Findings include severity and confidence levels but no fixes -- identifying problems is the sole purpose.

When to use it

  • You have a PRD, architecture document, or design that has not been stress-tested and you want a ruthless critique before committing to implementation.
  • You want to find the weaknesses in your plan -- gaps, unstated assumptions, scaling risks, security holes -- before your users or competitors find them.
  • You need a second opinion that deliberately assumes the worst case.

Prerequisites

  • No strict prerequisites. Works best when planning artifacts exist for context.

How to invoke

/gaia-adversarial .gaia/artifacts/planning-artifacts/prd.md

What it does step by step

  1. Load target Reads the target document, design, or code.
  2. Adversarial analysis Attacks from ten perspectives: feasibility, completeness, contradictions, assumptions, scale, failure modes, dependencies, security, user impact, and business risk.
  3. Generate report Produces a ranked findings report with severity and confidence levels. Writes to .gaia/artifacts/creative-artifacts/adversarial-review-{target}-{date}.md.

Inputs

InputSourceDescription
topicCommand argument (optional)The topic or challenge. If omitted, the command asks.

Outputs

OutputLocationDescription
Creative artifact.gaia/artifacts/creative-artifacts/The session output document.

Example session

> /gaia-adversarial .gaia/artifacts/planning-artifacts/prd.md

10 findings:
| Severity | Confidence | Finding |
|----------|------------|--------|
| critical | high | Auth token refresh not specified -- session loss risk |
| high | medium | Scale: no pagination on user listing |
| medium | high | Assumption: third-party API SLA not verified |

Written to .gaia/artifacts/creative-artifacts/adversarial-review-prd-2026-05-07.md

What to run next

  • Address the highest-severity findings, then run the adversarial review again to check your fixes.
  • Feed findings into /gaia-add-feature or /gaia-edit-prd to update the affected artifacts.

Troubleshooting

Topic not provided

The command asks for your topic interactively if no argument is given.