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Red-Team Protocol

cognitive-interface-architecture / red-team-protocol

Definition

Structured adversarial testing against an enumerated category list: boundary inputs, malformed inputs, concurrency failures, dependency failures, authorisation edge cases, and resource limits. Each category is tested systematically, not opportunistically.

What this prevents

Architectural answer to "code passes its own tests but fails in production." Ad-hoc testing finds the failures you expect. Red-teaming finds the failures you did not think to test for.

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