---
name: interrogate
description: "Use for \"interrogate\", \"adversarial review\", \"challenge this\", or \"find blind spots\" on a design, plan or decision: several LLM reviewers challenge it from independent angles. A PR on its way to main is deliver-ticket's independent review."
---

# Interrogate

Have independent reviewers challenge the design or changes against the same prompt and rubric. Evidence and distinct reasoning matter more than model identity.

Select reviewers within the repository's data-sharing and permission boundaries. Read those
restrictions first and include them in each review brief; if no permitted reviewer is available,
report the review as unavailable rather than send code to a prohibited service.

The deliverable is a synthesized verdict; this skill changes no files. When `deliver-ticket` calls it, the caller applies the Act on findings.

## Step 1, Determine Scope

Identify what to review from context:

- If the user points at specific files or a diff, use that
- If on a feature branch, run `git diff main...HEAD` (or the appropriate base branch) for the full changeset
- If the user's message references recent work, gather the relevant files

Package the diff (or file contents) plus any surrounding context files the reviewers need to understand the code.

## Step 2, State the Intent

Before spawning reviewers, state the intent explicitly. Derive this from:

- The user's message
- Commit messages
- PR description if one exists
- The code itself

Write one clear paragraph. If the intent is genuinely ambiguous, write your best reading and mark it as assumed, so the verdict can be re-read against it.

## Step 3, Spawn Reviewers

Use independent read-only reviewers available in the authorized environment. Give each the
same raw scope and rubric, not another reviewer's conclusions. Choose the number by the
change's risk; no particular model or different model family is required. Record unavailable
reviewers and incomplete coverage rather than claiming a pass.

Read `references/reviewer-prompt.md` and fill in the template with:
1. The stated intent
2. The diff or file contents
3. The review rubric from `references/rubric.md`
4. The code-quality lens from `references/code-quality-review.md`

The same filled template goes to all reviewers, so every reviewer applies the code-quality lens.

## Step 4, Synthesize

Merge the reviewers' findings into one list. Different reviewers describe the same issue differently: merge those and note which reviewers raised each. A finding raised independently by 2+ reviewers is the strongest signal; a single-reviewer finding still gets read, weighted accordingly. Where one reviewer explicitly contradicts another, keep both sides for the verdict and the Agreement Map.

## Step 5, Lead Judgment

You are the lead reviewer, a pragmatic senior engineer, not a neutral aggregator.

Read `references/lead-judgment.md` for the full framework.

Categorize every finding using these buckets:

- **Act on**. Real issues affecting correctness, security, or maintainability given the actual goals. These would block a real PR.
- **Consider**. Legitimate points, but you're not sure they outweigh the cost of addressing them right now. Worth the user's attention.
- **Noted**. Technically valid but not actionable. Context-dependent, premature optimization, or low-impact given the current stage.
- **Dismissed**. Wrong, nitpicky, or missing context. Brief explanation why.

For each finding, include:
- Which reviewer(s) raised it
- The category (act on / consider / noted / dismissed)
- A one-line rationale for the categorization

## Output Format

Present the verdict in this structure:

### Intent
> [The stated intent paragraph from Step 2]

### Reviewers
- Reviewer [label]: [reviewer identity], [N findings] (one bullet per reviewer)

### Act On
[Findings that should be addressed. For each: description, which reviewers raised it, why it matters.]

### Consider
[Findings worth thinking about. For each: description, which reviewers raised it, tradeoff involved.]

### Noted
[Valid but low-priority. Brief list.]

### Dismissed
[Rejected findings with brief rationale.]

### Agreement Map
[Where did reviewers agree, where did they diverge, and what does the pattern of agreement/disagreement tell us?]