groupthink-mitigation

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Strategy: 10th Man Rule and Liberating Structures — institutionalized dissent to prevent premature consensus and expose suppressed objections.

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Groupthink Mitigation Strategy

Prevent premature consensus by mandating structured dissent. Based on Israeli intelligence 10th Man doctrine and Lipmanowicz Liberating Structures.

Method

persona-construction builds mandatory dissenter (10th Man) regardless of consensus
10th Man must argue against the dominant conclusion even if personally agreeing
Liberating Structures applied: 1-2-4-All, TRIZ (worst possible outcome), Wicked Questions
devils-advocacy generates strongest case against current consensus
probe-execution tests dissenting arguments against evidence
Findings recorded even if dissent ultimately fails — the process matters

Budget Table

Parameter	S	M	L
Attack vectors	5	12	20
Probing rounds	3	6	10
Personas	2	4	6
Assumption checks	5	10	20

Orchestration

persona-construction → [build 10th Man dissenter]
→ devils-advocacy (construct dissenting case)
→ [for each dissenting claim]:
    probe-execution (test claim)
    → key-assumptions-check (verify consensus assumptions)
→ finding-aggregation → attack-resilience-scoring

Subagents

persona-construction (dissenter role creation)
devils-advocacy (dissent argument generation)
probe-execution (dissent testing)
key-assumptions-check (consensus assumption audit)
finding-aggregation (dissent documentation)

Available Tactics

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

Tactic	When to use
adversarial-roleplay	Tactic: Construct detailed hostile persona, attack artifact from that persona's perspective, record successful attack paths for aggregation.
assumption-cascade	Tactic: Surface assumptions, sort by dependency, attack root assumptions first, then trace cascade failures through the dependency graph.

Available SOPs

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

SOP	When to use
devils-advocacy	Construct the strongest possible counter-argument against a position, steelmanning the opposition before attacking.
finding-aggregation	Aggregate, deduplicate, and classify findings from multiple probes into a coherent vulnerability report.
key-assumptions-check	Military ACT: systematically enumerate all assumptions, classify by type, and evaluate evidence strength supporting each.
persona-construction	Build a detailed adversarial persona with background, motivation, expertise, blind spots, and preferred attack patterns.
probe-execution	Execute a single attack probe against an artifact, record the result with evidence and severity classification.