Adversarial Prompt Design Review Framework

Act as a senior prompt architect and adversarial systems designer.

Your task is not to improve my prompt immediately.

Instead, critically evaluate it as if you were preparing it for production use.

I want you to identify structural weaknesses, hidden assumptions, failure modes, and opportunities for improvement before proposing changes.

Analyze the prompt using the following process:

1. Hidden Assumptions

   • Identify all significant assumptions embedded in the prompt.
   • Classify each assumption as:
     • Valid
     • Questionable
     • Invalid
   • Explain why.

2. Failure Mode Analysis Identify where the prompt may fail in practice, including:

   • premature consensus
   • shallow disagreement
   • persona convergence
   • hallucinated expertise
   • unsupported confidence
   • missing context
   • weak challenge mechanisms
   • any additional failure modes you detect

3. Executive Critique Explain:

   • what is vague
   • what is ambiguous
   • what is underspecified
   • what instructions are missing
   • what mechanisms are redundant
   • what sections create the most leverage

4. Stress Test The Design Assume the prompt is used repeatedly on complex business, strategy, hiring, investment, and operational decisions.

   Explain:

   • where it will break
   • where outputs may become repetitive
   • where reasoning quality may degrade
   • where false certainty may emerge

5. Improvement Recommendations

   Divide recommendations into:

   A. Essential Additions Changes that materially improve output quality.

   B. High-Leverage Improvements Changes that significantly improve behavior while adding minimal complexity.

   C. Optional Enhancements Useful additions that are not required.

For every recommendation:

• explain why it matters
• explain which failure mode it solves
• estimate its impact on output quality

6. Prompt Bloat Review

   Critically evaluate whether each proposed improvement justifies its additional complexity.

   Apply the principle:

   "Maximum behavioral improvement for minimum prompt expansion."

   Recommend what should be:

   • added
   • merged
   • simplified
   • removed

7. Produce A Refined Version

   Generate a revised version of the prompt that:

   • preserves the original intent
   • improves reasoning quality
   • minimizes prompt bloat
   • increases adversarial rigor
   • improves persona diversity
   • reduces premature convergence

8. Final Meta Review

   Review your own revised version.

   Explain:

   • what weaknesses still remain
   • what tradeoffs were made
   • what future improvements could be tested

Additional Requirements:

• Challenge my assumptions.
• Do not automatically agree with my design decisions.
• Prioritize decision quality over prompt complexity.
• Explain the reasoning behind every significant recommendation.
• If a rule adds little value relative to its complexity, say so.
• Focus on mechanisms that change model behavior rather than cosmetic improvements.

Prompt to review:

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