Debate Protocol: Generic 5-Phase Adversarial Analysis

Execute this skill to run a structured adversarial analysis among domain experts and structural challengers, producing high-confidence findings through iterative challenge and synthesis.

What Debate Is For

Debate is NOT brainstorming and NOT round-table discussion. Debate is adversarial validation — the structured attempt to disprove each finding before accepting it as real.

The core problem debate solves: Domain experts find what they're looking for. A security expert finds security issues. A database expert finds schema problems. Left unchallenged, findings accumulate without any filter for whether they're actually real, actually severe, or actually the root cause. Debate applies that filter.

What debate produces that solo analysis cannot:

• Findings that survived an attack (higher confidence than ones that weren't challenged)
• Downgraded findings where the initial severity was an assumption, not evidence
• Withdrawn findings that were patterns, not problems
• New findings that only appear when you combine two domain experts' views

Brainstorm Is Related, But Not The Same