Multi-phase: automated tests → adversarial review → architect sign-off. No single point of failure.
Unit tests, integration tests, E2E tests. All automated, all running on every change. This is the baseline — necessary but not sufficient. Automated tests catch known failure modes. They don’t catch novel ones.
A hostile agent scores the output against the specification. Incentivized to find defects. Catches specification violations, subtle logic errors, and edge cases that automated tests miss. The adversarial reviewer doesn’t know what the code is trying to do — only what the spec says it should do.
Human verification of critical paths. The architect reviews not the code, but the evidence chain: did the tests pass? What did the adversarial reviewer find? Are the edge cases covered? This is oversight, not micromanagement.
Every gate produces artifacts. Test results, review scores, sign-off records. The entire quality chain is auditable. When a client asks “how do you know this works?”, the answer is a stack of evidence — not a promise.
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