{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/red-team-the-plan-from-the-other-side-of-the-system",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0739",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Red-team the plan from the other side of the system",
  "summary": "Your plan is not the only plan in the room.",
  "kind": "protocol",
  "body": "Adopt the perspective, incentives, information and constraints of the external actor or subsystem. Ask how they could react, adapt or exploit the plan. Return to your own perspective only after producing a coherent alternative model of their behavior.",
  "limits": [
    "Perspective-taking is still inference. Verify with direct evidence when the other actor's actual behavior is observable."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-structured-challenge-analysis"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-05770F7D21F1A20D"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "Devil's Advocacy and Red Team Analysis are contrarian techniques intended to challenge a dominant view or examine a problem from a different perspective.",
      "source_id": "RS-05770F7D21F1A20D",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Adversarial challenge can become theater if the challenger lacks independence, information or a genuine alternative model.",
      "locator": "Contrarian Techniques; Imaginative Thinking Techniques"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "A plan depends on how a customer, competitor, operator, attacker, regulator or neighboring team will respond."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Perspective-taking is still inference. Verify with direct evidence when the other actor's actual behavior is observable."
  ],
  "example": "A new approval rule may reduce one team's errors but encourage users to bypass the process through manual exceptions.",
  "check": "The red-team view uses the other side's incentives and constraints rather than simply imagining your own team behaving badly.",
  "steps": [
    "The red-team view uses the other side's incentives and constraints rather than simply imagining your own team behaving badly."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-05770F7D21F1A20D",
      "title": "A Tradecraft Primer: Structured Analytic Techniques for Improving Intelligence Analysis",
      "url": "https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/Tradecraft-Primer-apr09.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0739",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0738",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/give-the-favored-judgment-a-real-devil-s-advocate"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-7D3416BDD06B3913",
      "title": "Challenge the leading explanation before confidence hardens",
      "url": "/collections/challenge-the-leading-explanation-before-confidence-hardens"
    }
  ]
}