adversarial-persona

Research

Strategy: Role-play attacks from hostile personas — competing lab researcher, hostile reviewer, funding skeptic, domain outsider — each with distinct attack motivations and blind spots.

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Adversarial Persona Strategy

Construct and deploy hostile personas that attack from distinct motivational frames. Each persona has unique expertise, biases, and attack patterns.

Method

persona-construction builds detailed adversary profiles (background, motivation, expertise, blind spots)
Each persona attacks from their specific frame:
- Hostile Reviewer: methodological rigor, statistical validity, novelty claims
- Competing Lab: priority disputes, alternative approaches, resource efficiency
- Funding Skeptic: impact claims, feasibility, timeline realism
- Domain Outsider: jargon opacity, unstated assumptions, accessibility
probe-execution executes persona-specific attacks
Cross-persona findings compared to identify convergent vulnerabilities
finding-aggregation synthesizes across all persona perspectives

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 N personas per budget]
→ [for each persona]:
    attack-vector-generation (persona-specific vectors)
    → probe-execution (execute persona attacks)
→ finding-aggregation (cross-persona synthesis)
→ attack-resilience-scoring

Subagents

persona-construction (adversary profile building)
attack-vector-generation (persona-specific attack design)
probe-execution (persona attack execution)
finding-aggregation (cross-persona synthesis)
attack-resilience-scoring (convergent vulnerability scoring)

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.
structured-attack-campaign	Tactic: Full attack lifecycle — threat surface enumeration, attack vector generation, systematic probing, and finding aggregation across all surfaces.

Available SOPs

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

SOP	When to use
attack-resilience-scoring	Compute overall resilience score (0.0-1.0) based on attack results, coverage, and vulnerability severity distribution.
attack-vector-generation	Generate specific attack strategies for a given threat surface, producing concrete probes that can be executed.
finding-aggregation	Aggregate, deduplicate, and classify findings from multiple probes into a coherent vulnerability report.
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.