worst-case-design

Design

Design the worst possible solution. Deliberate failure engineering to reveal hidden constraints and inversion opportunities.

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Worst-Case Design

Design the worst possible solution.

Execution

Subagent — spawned via subagent-spawning/spawn-agent skill.

Why Subagent

Worst-case design requires creative perversity — deliberately optimizing for failure across multiple dimensions. Benefits from dedicated focus to produce genuinely terrible solutions (not just mediocre ones) that yield rich inversion material.

Available SOPs

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

SOP	When to use
spawn-agent	Spawn a customized CC subagent with full MCP tool access. Used by SOPs that declare execution: subagent.